Seven of nine major U.S. universities have rejected a new Department of Education policy proposal known as the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,' a Trump administration initiative that would tie federal funding to a set of strict campus policies. the deadline for nine universities to weigh in passed Monday and institutions including the University of Arizona, Brown University, the University of Southern California, Dartmouth College, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania declined to endorse the policy. Only two universities — Vanderbilt and...