- @mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact." President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
- Apart from the massive invasion of academic freedom that this compact demands, MIT simply does not want a special leg up—it wants "open competition for excellence." "In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences." A stunning rebuke.Oct 10, 2025 19:52
