White House to Meet College Leaders About Preferential Funding Plan

White House officials spoke Friday with the leaders of several colleges about the Trump administration’s proposed preferential funding compact, after rejections of the accord by a number of elite schools showed the idea is struggling to gain traction.

Three of the schools invited to discuss the issue — Arizona State University, the University of Kansas and Washington University in St. Louis — had not received the White House’s original Oct. 1 overture about the compact. Four other invited schools had gotten that initial offer to join the compact, but have not yet issued a public declaration of whether they’d sign on. Those schools include the University of Arizona, Dartmouth College, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Texas Austin.