PROVIDENCE – Brown University President Christina H. Paxson has rejected the Trump Administration's proposed "compact" tying preferential access to federal funds to, as she described it, the forfeiture of academic freedom.

Brown University is rejecting a Trump administration proposal that would provide favorable access to funding in exchange for a wide range of commitments.

President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 sought input from the broader Brown community about the Trump administration’s “ Compact for Excellence in Higher Education ” on Friday. She first acknowledged the compact at Tuesday’s faculty meeting, where faculty members and invited administrators discussed the memo in a private session.

Brown University President Christina Paxson said she had refused to sign her Ivy League school onto a Trump administration memo, making Brown the second school to decline the offer sent to nine elite universities laying out detailed policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.