The 10-point agreement obtained by USA TODAY, would commit participating schools to cap international undergraduate enrollment at 15% of the student body, freeze tuition over the next five years; and require applicants to take the SAT, ACT or other similar entry exams.Universities would be required to adopt a policy protecting “academic freedom” of all viewpoints in the classroom and abolish “institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”The compact also demands that schools exclude race, sex and ethnicity as factors in admissions; adopt “institutional neutrality” restricting professors and other employees to express political views in debates affecting the schools; use strict definitions of men and women for sports and bathroom facilities; and require “conditions of civility” prohibiting demonstrations that disrupt the campus or target other students.The compact first reported by the Wall Street Journal, was sent to leaders of Vanderbilt University, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona and the University of Virginia.Universities that agree to the compact would receive a competitive advantage for federal education funds, a White House official told USA TODAY, including receiving priority for grants when possible as well as invitations to certain White House events and discussions with officials.The official said federal funding won’t be limited to schools that signed the compact.  Higher ed lobby and Newsom respondTed Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, which represents about 1,600 presidents of college and universities, criticized the compact as an affront on academic independence. “Any effort to reward or punish institutions based on their adherence to the views of government officials should trouble all Americans,” Mitchell said in a statement.“Defining what constitutes a vigorous and open-ended intellectual environment is not the role of the federal government, and the implications for free speech and academic freedom are chilling,” said Mitchell, who served as under secretary of education in the Obama administration.Democratic California Gov.