The University of Arizona said on October 20 that it did not agree that the Trump administration had previously requested some universities to sign an agreement containing specific terms.The university became the seventh of the first nine universities to explicitly refuse to sign the agreement.
Suresh Garimera, president of the University of Arizona, wrote in an open letter published by the school's official website that the school believed that some basic principles of the school must be retained, so it did not agree to the terms outlined in the draft agreement.
The Trump administration sent a letter to nine U.S. universities on the evening of October 1, asking the university to sign an agreement containing specific provisions for preferential use of federal funding. These provisions include: requiring universities not to take into account factors such as race or gender when recruiting staff and accepting students; limiting the international undergraduate student admission rate to no more than 15%; and requiring students to apply for the U.S. University Admission Test (SAT) or similar academic proficiency test.
According to US media reports, the 20th is the deadline for the Trump administration to ask the nine universities to give feedback on the agreement. Previously, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, University of Southern California, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia and Dartmouth College have explicitly expressed their refusal to sign the agreement.