According to the U.S. Wall Street Journal website, the Trump administration has asked some U.S. universities to sign an agreement containing specific terms to get the opportunity to prioritize the use of federal funds.

According to the report, the government sent a letter to the first nine universities on Sunday night, asking the university to sign the agreement. The agreement contains 10 items: requiring the university to prohibit taking into account factors such as race and gender when recruiting staff and accepting students; limiting the admission rate of international undergraduate students to no more than 15%; requiring students to apply for the U.S. University Admission Test (SAT) or similar academic proficiency test; curbing the phenomenon of high student scores, etc. The agreement also prohibits employees from expressing political views on behalf of the school, unless the situation affects the school.

The Trump administration said in a letter that the signing of the agreement would bring ¡°multiple positive benefits,¡± including ¡°a large and meaningful federal subsidy,¡± and that if universities choose to give up federal welfare, they ¡°are free to develop other models and values.¡±

The nine universities are Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, University of Arizona, Brown University and University of Virginia, the report quoted an unnamed government official as saying.

May Melman, senior White House adviser on special projects, said in an interview that the schools were chosen because they were believed to be or could be "excellent actors." She also said that the government does not intend to limit federal funding to schools that have signed the agreement, but that if possible, these schools will receive priority funding.

Neither the White House nor the U.S. Department of Education have responded to the Wall Street Journal report.

Since Trump returned to the White House in January this year, the U.S. government has asked many domestic colleges and universities to eradicate anti-Semitism and adjust their enrollment policies that favor ethnic minorities, otherwise they will face risks such as funding cuts or cuts off. The University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and Brown University have announced that they have reached a "rectification" agreement with the federal government, but Harvard University and other universities have chosen to be "hard" and start negotiations with the federal government or even go to court.