Brown University has rejected the Trump administration’s proposed compact, which would have required the university to make changes to its campus policies in exchange for an advantage in receiving federal funds.

In a Wednesday letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon and White House aides May Mailman and Vincent Haley, Brown President Christina Paxson said she was “concerned” that agreeing to the compact “would restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance.”

Paxson notes that while she is willing to cooperate with the federal government and is “committed to contributing to national conversations about principles for improving American higher education,” the compact does not recognize “the government’s lack of authority to dictate our curriculum or the content of academic speech.”

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