AAC&U – Office of the President /president President Garry W. Jenkins Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:33:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 /wp-content/themes/b/bates-framework/styles/images/bates-favicon.png AAC&U – Office of the President /president 32 32 ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ President Garry W. Jenkins signs AAC&U statement on the Trump administrationā€™s ā€˜Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Educationā€™ /president/2025/10/30/bates-president-garry-w-jenkins-signs-aacu-statement-on-the-trump-administrations-compact-for-academic-excellence-in-higher-education/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:33:49 +0000 /president/?p=4663 In early October 2025, the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) published a statement on the Trump administrationā€™s ā€œCompact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.ā€ This follows an April joint statement from AAC&U and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, ā€œA Call for Constructive Engagement.ā€ The new statement, signed by more than 100 college and university presidents and academic leaders, including ĄÖ²„“«Ć½ President Garry W. Jenkins, ā€œopposes any alternative that would erode or eviscerate essential freedoms and promote instability by making Americaā€™s colleges and universities subject not to the law and the principles that have served us so well for centuries, but to the changing priorities of successive administrations.ā€ The full text of the statement is available .

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