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Breaking Down the Trump Administration’s Higher Ed Compact
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Breaking Down the Trump Administration’s Higher Ed Compact

What the offer to trade preferential funding for cultural and operational reforms could mean for universities.
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One of the main gates on the Brown University campus, decorated with the University Crest. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has made little secret of his desire to reshape America’s institutions of higher education, viewing them as entrenched factories of progressive indoctrination. His administration has frozen research funding, launched civil rights investigations, and publicly pressured university leaders.

Dan Currell was deputy undersecretary and senior adviser in the U.S. Department of Education from 2018 to 2021. He is a trustee of Gustavus Adolphus College.

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