Trump offers all colleges preferential funding plan turned down by MIT

In return, they must commit to policy shifts like diversity, equity and inclusion bans

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The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The White House sent its Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, designed in part by Apollo Global Management co-founder Marc Rowan, to nine colleges earlier in October, asking for feedback.

A few days after MIT rebuffed the proposal, the administration extended the offer to all higher education institutions, according to the person, who asked not to be identified.

The move expands President Donald Trump’s latest pressure tactic beyond the relatively small circle of elite colleges and research universities that had been his administration’s targets. The person familiar with the matter said a number of schools had reached out to express interest in the agreement, but declined to name them.

“Higher education has lost its way, and is now corrupting our youth and society with woke, socialist and anti-American ideology,” Mr Trump posted on Oct 12 on Truth Social.

“My administration is fixing this, and fast, with our great reform agenda in higher education.”