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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would have given it preferential access to federal funding.

In a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon, MIT President Sally Kornbluth wrote that the university “cannot support the proposed approach” and cited concerns regarding free expression.

“The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Kornbluth wrote

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