Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda in exchange for access to federal money
The 10-page proposed agreement was sent Wednesday to some of the most selective public and private universities: Vanderbilt, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia. It was not clear how these schools were selected or why, and whether similar offers might go out to other colleges.
Signing on would give universities priority access to some federal grants, but government money would not be limited solely to those schools, according to a White House official who was not authorised to publicly discuss the plan and spoke on conditi... [2829 chars]
Published by: The Indian Express
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