"Two universities - the University of Southern California and the University of Arizona - have become the latest to reject the Trump administration's demands to impose transgender bathroom bans on their campuses. They join five other universities that have similarly refused letters from the administration offering large financial incentives in exchange for adopting so-called "reforms," which include anti-transgender measures, anti-immigrant provisions, attacks on diversity programs, and new restrictions on student protests."
"To foster such an environment at USC, we have committed ourselves to institutional neutrality and launched a number of initiatives designed to promote civil discourse across the ideological spectrum. Without an environment where students and faculty can freely debate a broad range of ideas and viewpoints, we could not produce outstanding research, teach our students to think critically, or instill the civic values needed for our democracy to flourish,"
The University of Southern California and the University of Arizona rejected a Trump administration compact that offered preferential federal grant access in return for sweeping campus policy changes. Nine universities received letters proposing financial incentives for adopting measures to curb alleged punishment of conservative viewpoints, limit foreign student enrollment, and implement anti-transgender rules including denial of gender identities and bathroom and sports bans. The two rejections join five other refusals; notable institutions previously folded to earlier anti-LGBTQ+ demands, including Brown, Columbia, Harvard, and Penn, with some later rejecting the newest compact. USC cited institutional neutrality and civil discourse as essential to academic excellence.
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