The Massachusetts Institute of Technology turned down a Trump administration deal that would have given it benefits from the government if it conformed to Republican policy priorities .

MIT was one of nine elite schools to which the administration offered the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” deal earlier this month.

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The school became the first to deny it publicly on Friday, citing the college’s values of free expression and “the core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

MIT President Sally Kornbluth shared her letter refusing

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