The discriminatory "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" extortion scheme, promising preferred access to federal funding in exchange for submitting to the administration's demands over how to run the schools, was pitched to nine colleges and universities in a letter sent at the beginning of October. The 10-point plan demanded the schools' submission to the president's "gender ideology" obsession, effectively erasing trans identity in higher education, along with a cap on international undergraduate enrollment at 15% and banning the use of race or sex in hiring, among other diktats.
The White House has asked the University of Southern California and eight other major universities to take a shift to the right and agree to President Trump's views on gender identity, admissions, diversity and free speech among other areas - in exchange for more favorable access to federal research grants and additional funding. Universities were asked to sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" committing them to adopt the White House's conservative vision for America's campuses.