NYU senior leadership should unequivocally reject the “Compact of Academic Excellence in Higher Education” that the Trump administration’s Department of Education has pressured all U.S. universities to sign. The compact is extortionary, repressive and unconstitutional. It has been rightly compared to a “loyalty oath,” conditioning federal funding for universities on the latter accepting a wide-ranging... This story NYU must reject Trump’s coercive ‘compact’ appeared first on W...