The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” asked nine universities to meet a variety of demands, from banning the consideration of race and gender in admissions decisions, to requiring undergraduate applicants take the SAT or ACT.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is facing a federal lawsuit accusing the elite university and its leaders of cultivating an environment “rife with anti-Semitism and fear.” The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed the ...