Trump Offers Top Universities Funds If They Boost Conservative Ideas
Ed Pilkington | 02 October 2025 | The Guardian
Donald Trump is offering nine top universities a deal in which they would agree to advance conservative ideas on their campuses and commit to a range of other conditions in exchange for federal funding.
The extraordinary offer, which was sent out from the White House on Wednesday, presents the universities with a 10-point “compact”. As a sweetener, any university that signs up to the deal is promised “multiple positive benefits”, including “substantial and meaningful federal grants”…