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MIT President Sally Kornbluth is telling President Trump's administration that the prestigious college in Cambridge, Massachusetts will not be signing on to the White House's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.

The Trump admin's college compact is only the latest effort to change US academic institutions; schools like Columbia, University of Michigan and the University of Chicago are feeling the shift.

PROVIDENCE — Professors and students at Brown University are publicly urging the school not to cave to pressure from the Trump administration to sign a “compact” pledging to uphold President Trump’s political priorities.

For US higher education to survive as a system, there needs to more new “startup” institutions that provide innovation and fresh approaches to education.

While school advocates touted some successes with Michigan's higher education budget for 2025-26, there were still some priorities missed.

Artificial intelligence, for better or for worse, has become an integral part of college students' study habits.

In Learning with Their Feet, Preston Cooper, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, offers compelling evidence that students are not just responding to rising costs or demographic shifts. They are actively rejecting or choosing colleges based on quality, value, and outcomes.

The state has also fallen short of the goal that every student earn at least a high school diploma. About 7% of young Oregonians today have no high school diploma, an improvement from the roughly 11% in 2012.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth speaks during Commencement ceremonies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 30, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo (Reuters) -Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.