Last month, the Trump administration gave the University of Texas at Austin and a handful of other universities until Nov. 21 to decide whether they would agree to a series of policy changes in exchange for preferential access to federal funding.
That deadline has now passed, and UT-Austin still hasn’t indicated publicly whether it will sign the agreement, even as other universities have rejected the administration’s offer.
UT-Austin and the White House did not respond Friday to inquiries about whether the university plans to accept, reject or seek revisions to the agreement.
The proposal, known as the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” would require UT-Austin to define sex as male or female based on reproductive function, cap international enrollment at 15%, freeze tuition for five years and ensure that academic departments include a mix of ideological perspectives among their faculty and programs.
See here and here for the background. I got a brief look at this Statesman story before the paywall kicked in, and it may be the case that some clandestine negotiations are still going on. Hard to say, though a student activist group was celebrating the passing of the deadline with no agreement in place. This is one place where I’d excuse the “duck and cover and hope it goes away” strategy, if that’s what is happening here. Especially given that no other school took this crooked “deal:, let’s hope there’s no more news to be had on this subject.
UT should never bend a knee to Trump!!! If it does, I will not be making any donations to UT until the e tortion is removed!