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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The Trump administration offers an initial nine U.S. universities a compact on higher education,

promising access to federal funding in exchange for commitments on admissions,

campus speech, grade inflation, tuition, and more.

Is this common sense college reform, an overreach by Uncle Sam, or maybe some of both?

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Colin Levy and columnist Kim Strassel. The Trump administration's

clashes with Harvard, Columbia, George Mason, University, and other schools have prompted

headlines and sometimes lawsuits. But now the government seems to be broadening its lens.

Last week, sending a letter to nine schools that the White House sees as potential

partners, including Dartmouth, the University of Southern California, MIT, the University of Texas

at Austin, and the University of Virginia. Attached was a document titled Compact for Academic

Excellence in Higher Education, seeking a broad range of commitments

from these schools.

Colin, maybe a place to start is to put a pin in the question of the federal government's

role and power here and just go through some of the bullet points in this 10-point list

from the Trump administration. If I can group

them a little bit, my first would be on admissions. So there's a headline equality in admissions

talking about what sounds to me like enforcing the law and the constitutional decision from

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