(FILES) People walk on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachussetts, on April 15, 2025. Top US university MIT on October 10 became the first higher education institute to reject a White House offer of federal funding if it brought its policies in line with US President Donald Trump's conservative agenda. The government's proposal, sent to nine universities in early October, would require the institutions to stop considering factors related to gender, ethnicity, race and other factors when admitting students, among other stipulations, if they wanted to receive federal funding. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)