Kirk Carapesa

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Under the proposed deal, colleges would have to ban race or gender considerations in admissions and hiring, freeze tuition,

and cap international enrollment at 15%.

Mikel DeGraff teaches linguistics at MIT, where he's been accused of harassing a Jewish student.

He sees the compact as a major escalation of the campus culture wars.

For me, it's nothing new.

Faculty have been quite timid, but I hope they will join the fight before it's too late.

MIT confirmed to GBH it has received the memo from the Trump administration, but declined to comment.

For NPR News, I'm Kirk Karapesa in Boston.