Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence"

This is pretty good--but I've only read the whole thing once (and fragments from it a few times).

My initial reaction: academia would be much better at what it allegedly does if it accepted these...what are they? Guidelines? Constraints? Principles?

But it's pretty unlikely that many schools will.

To just address the most important idea: they don't want institutional neutrality.

Too many professors see themselves as "scholar-activists"--they have a political orientation, and they see it as central to what they do. They're not interested in understanding the world--only in changing it.