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Joy Connolly on White House Compact in Inside Higher Ed
ACLS President Joy Connolly is quoted in an October 8, 2025 Inside Higher Ed article on the dangers of the White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” Following up on an ACLS statement on the compact, Connolly added that the White House “is using nine months of intimidation tests to take its divide-and-conquer strategy to the next level.”
If one by one institutions give in and sign, hoping to mitigate the damage later, it will set a truly problematic precedent. Some of the most powerful and wealthy institutions on the planet will have agreed to subject their faculty and research and teaching to state approval, and academia will be visibly divided into an insider group and an outsider group. Joy Connolly
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