UT-Austin considering offer to adopt Trump priorities for funding advantages

The Trump administration has offered the University of Texas at Austin and eight other schools across the country access to preferential federal funding in exchange to agreeing to several conditions, which reportedly include a stricter definition of gender and a cap on international student enrollment. (Credit: Manoo Sirivelu/The Texas Tribune)

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The Trump administration has asked the University of Texas at Austin to agree to a “set of operating principles” — which reportedly include adopting a stricter definition of gender, a five-year tuition freeze and a cap on international student enrollment — in exchange for preferential access to federal funding, the University of Texas System confirmed on Thursday.