EXCLUSIVE: A historically Black university in North Carolina is the first to express interest in joining President Donald Trump‘s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education after Ivy League schools and high-profile state universities declined the controversial higher education initiative.
Verjanis Peoples, the interim president of St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, sent a letter to David Barker, the Trump administration‘s assistant secretary for postsecondary education, confirming the school’s wish to participate in the compact. Sophie Gibson, the chair of the school’s board of trustees, also signed the letter obtained by Fox News Digital, which was sent to the Department of Education on Wednesday.