BOSTON: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she “cannot support” a memo that the White House sent to nine elite US universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

In an open letter to US Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Kornbluth said some of the policies would restrict MIT’s independence and freedom of expression. “The premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” Kornbluth said in her letter, which was posted to an MIT website.

Some of the policies included in the memo were capping international undergraduate enrollment at 15pc, banning the use of race or sex........

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