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Multiple colleges are rejecting a compact the Trump administration sent to nine universities at the beginning of October that guaranteed funding advantages if the institutions agreed to certain policy ...

President Trump’s college compact offer has fallen flat. As of Monday’s deadline to get back to the administration, at least six prominent universities have publicly rejected the deal, which offers ...

The University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California joined the ranks of schools rejecting a deal from the Trump administration for preferential access to federal funds in exchange ...

University of Virginia interim President Paul Mahoney announced Friday that the University has provided comments on the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. The compact, which ...

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The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the world’s oceans, tiny organisms known as phytoplankton harvest the sun’s energy, gobbling up carbon dioxide and ...

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