{"id":4663,"date":"2025-10-30T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:33:50","slug":"bates-president-garry-w-jenkins-signs-aacu-statement-on-the-trump-administrations-compact-for-academic-excellence-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/2025\/10\/30\/bates-president-garry-w-jenkins-signs-aacu-statement-on-the-trump-administrations-compact-for-academic-excellence-in-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates President Garry W. Jenkins signs AAC&amp;U statement on the Trump administration\u2019s \u2018Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In early October 2025, the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&amp;U) published a statement on the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cCompact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.\u201d This follows an April joint statement from AAC&amp;U and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, \u201cA Call for Constructive Engagement.\u201d The new statement, signed by more than 100 college and university presidents and academic leaders, including Bates President Garry W. Jenkins, \u201copposes any alternative that would erode or eviscerate essential freedoms and promote instability by making America\u2019s colleges and universities subject not to the law and the principles that have served us so well for centuries, but to the changing priorities of successive administrations.\u201d The full text of the statement is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacu.org\/newsroom\/aac-u-statement-on-the-trump-administrations-compact-for-academic-excellence-in-higher-education\">here<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early October 2025, the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&amp;U)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1775,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15,14],"class_list":["post-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-jenkins-speeches-and-statements","tag-aacu","tag-garry-jenkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4665,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/4665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}