USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim rejected the Trump administration’s education compact, which would offer priority funding to universities following the president’s conservative vision.

The University of Pennsylvania and University of Southern California each declined Thursday to join the Trump administration’s proposal that links federal funding to restrictions on hiring, admission...

In a Wednesday letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon and White House aides May Mailman and Vincent Haley, Brown President Christina Paxson said she was “concerned” that agreeing to the compact “...