MIT Rejects Trump’s Rowan-Backed University Funding Compact

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology rejected the Trump administration’s latest effort to reorient higher education toward its policy priorities, spurning a proposal that calls for universities to accept a series of demands in exchange for preferential access to federal funding.MIT’s practices already “meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent,” President Sally Kornbluth said in a letter Friday to Education Secretary Linda McMahon. Other parts of the deal, which Apollo Global Mana ...