How universities are responding to the Trump administration's 'compact' for funding

The Trump administration has offered nine major universities preferential access to federal funds in exchange for agreeing to a list of administration demands

The Trump administration has offered nine major universities preferential access to federal funds in exchange for agreeing to a list of administration demands.

The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” lays out demands that include no consideration of race, sex or other factors in enrollment, financial aid or hiring decisions.

The 10-page agreement would also require the universities to bar transgender people from using restrooms or playing in sports that align with their gender identities and capping international undergraduate student enrollment.

And it includes an “institutional neutrality” that would limit what faculty members could say about political or other issues.

“This requires policies that all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives, will abstain from actions or speech relating to societal and political events except in cases in which external events have a direct impact upon the university,” the 10-page memo, obtained by NBC News in early October, reads.