Introduction On October 1, 2025, the U.S. Secretary of Education asked nine institutions, including six private schools (Brown University, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Pennsylvania (Penn), University of Southern California (USC), and Vanderbilt University) and three state universities (the Universities of Arizona, Texas, and Virginia), to join a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”1. U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to Ni...
