Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.
Institutions and advocates took issue with the proposal’s vague language and lack of privacy safeguards as well as the vast time and effort needed to collect the required data. Institutions of higher education and their advocates are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s plan to require colleges to submit new data about their admissions decisions.
Agreeing to commit to the document “would restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance,” Christina H. Paxson said in a letter Wednesday.
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