Called the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," most of the asks are eminently reasonable, and would make it so colleges now conform with the law instead of flouting it outright. Of course, "institutions of higher education are free to develop models and values other than those below, if the institution elects to forego federal benefits," reads the document. Who is a federal bureaucrat to decide how many international students a college ought to admit, when the college should be able to decide what's in their best interest and what's not? The Trump administration had asked the high court to remove Cook immediately." Those metrics are down even as New College spends more than 10 times per student what the other 11 members of the State University System spend, on average.