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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Main points:

The memo demands that schools ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions; 
freeze tuition for five years; 
cap international undergrad enrollment at 15%; 
require that applicants take the SAT or a similar test;
quell grade inflation.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-universities-compact-federal-funds-agreement-df158493?mod=hp_lead_pos1
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I hope colleges tell him to "F off".[/quote]

The nine he name-checked he's probably already entered into soft negotiations with. Only schools like Harvard that have access to larger pools of money and have their integrity in check will resist. None of them want to do this, but they're being pressed.[/quote]

Seems unlikely to me. The way Trump operates is to drop this stuff as a power move. Just like the Harvard stuff—he keeps announcing that Harvard has agreed to cave, hoping that they will be browbeaten into doing it.

Brown already gave him a settlement and (stupidly, as everyone said at the time) thought they were done. This is his way of showing that they are never done. They just made themselves a mark. So it’s even more critical that they say no this; they need to say some version of, “we reached an agreement with the government and intend to adhere to it; we expect the government to do the same. We will not reopen negotiations.”[/quote]

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