Sargent & Zeller: Don’t Sign Any Form of the Compact
Although President Beilock rejected the compact “as written,” we urge that no form of the compact should be signed, in order to safeguard the bedrock principle that academic excellence is inseparable from academic freedom.
President Sian Leah Beilock has rightly rejected the Trump administration’s coercive Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.
The compact was a deal with the devil, deceptively designed to enhance institutional quality through federal investment.It demanded a price no free institution of learning should pay — the surrender of academic independence in exchange for government dollars.
Accepting such terms would have not only violated Dartmouth’s proud tradition of self-governance, but Dartmouth would have ceded corporate rights we won in Dartmouth College v.
Author's summary: Reject the compact to safeguard academic freedom.
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