FROM THE LA TIMES: “During an impassioned USC Academic Senate meeting on Monday, faculty strongly denounced and rejected the Trump administration’s offer to give the university funding preference in exchange for abiding by conservative education goals. In forceful speeches, University of Southern California department chairs, professors, researchers, and others who attended the virtual meeting called the compact “egregiously invalid,” “probably unconstitutional,” “antithetical to principles of academic freedom,” and “a Trojan horse.” The compact, which was also provided to eight other prominent universities across the country, has roiled higher education and has drawn the ire of Gov. Gavin Newsom with its demands for rightward campus policy shifts in exchange for priority federal funding.” Read more here.