LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- USC on Thursday formally declined to sign a Trump administration compact sent to various universities calling on them to agree to series of conservative ideals in exchange for priority consideration in seeking federal funding.

"USC fully agrees that academic excellence cannot exist without a vibrant marketplace of ideas where all different views can be explored, debated, and challenged,"' USC Interim President Beong-Soo Kim wrote in a letter sent to the U.S. Department of Education. "To foster such an environment at USC, we have committed ourselves to institutional neutrality and launched a number of initiatives designed to promote civil discourse across the ideological spectrum. Without an environment where students and faculty can freely debate a broad range of ide

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