# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-11-10T18:40:16.000+00:00
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UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts told faculty leaders the university does not plan on signing President Donald Trump’s administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” in exchange for favorable consideration of federal funding.

During his scheduled comments at the UNC Faculty Council meeting, Roberts told faculty “nobody” has asked the university’s leadership to sign the compact and described it, in his mind, as a settled issue.

“We were not one of the universities who received the letter from the administration,” he said, acknowledging that schools could also voluntarily sign the agreement. “What we’ve said before publicly…and I’ve also relayed it to senior federal policymakers: there are some parts of the compact that we’re already doing, and there are some parts of the compact that would be difficult or impossible for us to do. So, there’s really no way that we can sign the compact as written and we don’t plan to.”

Roberts — who said early in his comments he’d recently spent time in Washington D.C. on the university’s behalf — also clarified he had not heard any discussion of the UNC System receiving a request from the White House and was not sure whether it would be determined on a system-wide basis or campus-by-campus if it came to that.

“I don’t perceive a continued effort by the administration to try to get schools to sign onto the compact,” Roberts added. “My sense of it — and it’s just one perspective — is that [the White House] sent out the letter to the initial group of nine schools…none of those school signed on, some of them responded saying they couldn’t. And then [the administration] said any other schools are welcome to sign on. I’ve heard of three other schools that have done that. I don’t think any of them are schools we’d consider in our peer set… other [American Association of Universities] schools, other R1s [the top research classification by Carnegie], whatever metric you want to use. And that’s the last I’ve heard about the compact.”

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