By Ryan Briggs and Max Marin, The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Amid a financial tailspin and organizational upheaval, leaders at Valley Forge Military College have expressed interest in joining President Donald Trump’s plan for conservative colleges that would provide preferential access to federal education funding.

Trump’s proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education offers the promise of federal funding in exchange for a pledge from university administrators to promote “American and Western values,” end DEI programs, adopt biological gender definitions, and shut down departments that criticize conservatives, among other requirements.

Described by the president as part of a war on “woke,” the compact has triggered First Amendment complaints from critics and rai

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