President Donald Trump’s administration sent letters last night to nine universities, including Vanderbilt, asking them to sign a 10-point “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” according to The Wall Street Journal. The compact also stipulates that universities whose endowment exceeds $2 million per undergraduate student should provide free tuition to students in “hard science” programs. He added that university leaders deciding whether to sign the compact need to consider if they can pursue their mission within the constraints of the compact. Doyle further added that the compact would require university administrations to interfere with academic freedom in the area of peer review. “President Trump is applying his America First agenda in this instance by reframing how universities are treated by the federal government,” Bodwell said.