Arizona State University has received an offer to sign a compact from the White House along with several other universities, multiple media outlets reported on Monday.

The Tempe university joined the University of Arizona in Tucson among those schools across the country that received the offer, according to KJZZ.

On Monday afternoon, UofA President Suresh Garimella sent out a statement saying the Tucson university had declined to sign the compact.

"A number of the proposed federal recommendations deserve thoughtful consideration as our national higher education system could benefit from reforms that have been much too slow to develop. In fact, many of the proposed ideas are already in place at the U of A," Garimella stated.

"At the same time, principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding, and institutional independence are foundational and must be preserved," he added.

In its letter declining the compact, UofA included a "Statement of Principals" to the U.S. Department of Education outlining its stances on its positions.

Doug Goodyear, Arizona Board of Regents chair, said in a statement that ABOR supported the UofA's decision.

“The board is committed to protecting the values of Arizona higher education that have made it the best in the world - most importantly academic freedom, institutional independence and merit-based research. And that remains our focus," Goodyear said.

The agreement with the Trump administration would require schools to have bathrooms and facilities based on a person's gendera at birth, freeze tuition for five years, limit international student enrollment and require the SAT or ACT for admission.

Those requirements would be met with preferential treatment for funding for those colleges that signed on.

If any university was found to have violated any items in the compact, however, they would be referred to the U.S. Department of Justice and required to return all federal funding they had received in that year.

Several of the nine schools originally sent the offer on Oct. 1. Those declining were the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia, according to NPR.

The schools were invited to a discussion last Friday, which included new invitees ASU, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Kansas, according to the Wall Street Journal.

In Tucson, students, staff and even the Tucson City Council weighed in to encourage the unversity and the Arizona Board of Regents to reject the deal, while administrators said they were reviewing it before ultimately declining, according to the Arizona Mirror.