The University of Pennsylvania publicly released its letter rejecting the Trump administration’s proposed higher‑education compact, laying out concerns about academic freedom, preferential funding and undefined enforcement. Penn’s president J. Larry Jameson acknowledged areas of common ground—grade integrity, nondiscrimination and viewpoint neutrality—but declined the compact on procedural and principle grounds. That rejection adds to a growing list of institutions pushing back against the White House proposal, underscoring the lack of broad institutional buy‑in and sharpening the debate over federal leverage in university governance.