UT Austin is one of two universities that has not publicly rejected the compact sent by the White House earlier this month.

The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education asks universities to follow 10 points aligned with the Trump administration in exchange for better access to federal funding. The deadline for university officials to submit comments or feedback was Monday, Oct. 20.

Before that deadline, seven out of the nine universities presented with the compact publicly rejected the offer. Vanderbilt University is the other school that has not publicly said whether it will accept or reject the offer.

When the compact was first sent to universities, UT System officials said they were "honored" to be selected for potential funding advantages and "enthusiastically" looked

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