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Major Universities Reject White House Funding Compact Over Merit Concerns
The University of Virginia has become the fifth prestigious institution to decline a White House proposal offering preferential funding treatment in exchange for policy commitments. University leadership expressed concerns that the arrangement would undermine merit-based research assessment and create an illegal two-tiered funding system.
Growing Academic Resistance to Federal Funding Proposal
The University of Virginia has joined a growing list of prestigious institutions rejecting a White House proposal that would offer preferential funding treatment to universities agreeing to specific policy requirements, according to reports. The decision marks the fifth such rejection in recent days, signaling significant resistance within higher education to what some administrators describe as a fundamental threat to merit-based research funding.