Trump To Require Universities To Hand Over Admissions Data On Race

President Donald Trump is expected to motion a directive connected Thursday, mandating universities supply admissions information to beryllium that they are not implementing affirmative action policies, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said connected X.

Leavitt did not disclose nan criteria that nan management will usage to find whether schools are practicing race-conscious admissions.

It comes aft Ivy League universities Columbia and Brown past period struck settlements that require them to merchandise accusation astir applicants’ title successful summation to trial scores and world performance, amid a monthslong back-and-forth pinch nan Trump management complete national funding. The colony has stoked debates astir world state and nan domiciled of authorities institutions successful higher education.

The directive comes much than 2 years aft nan Supreme Court struck down nan usage of affirmative action programs astatine nan University of North Carolina and Harvard, ruling that nan information of title successful nan admissions process successful some programs violated nan Equal Protection Clause of nan constitution. Conservative activists, who based on that nan argumentation led to favoritism against achromatic and Asian students, considered nan ruling a awesome victory.

The arguable ruling, however, was heavy criticized by galore others who based on that race-conscious admissions provided an avenue for students from marginalized communities to combat humanities group favoritism successful nan higher acquisition system.

“But deeming title irrelevant successful rule does not make it truthful successful life,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote successful a dissenting opinion. “And having truthful detached itself from this country’s existent past and coming experiences, nan Court has now been lured into interfering pinch nan important activity that UNC and different institutions of higher learning are doing to lick America’s real-world problems.”

The Trump management has continued to aggressively ace down connected diversity, equity and inclusion-related programs, signing an executive bid successful his first week in agency directing each departments and agencies to terminate what it considered to beryllium “discriminatory and forbidden preferences, mandates, policies, programs” and more.