The Next Step in Ending Racial Preferences in Higher Education

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 31, 2025 | George Leef

[karpov]

For decades, the higher-education establishment was allowed to do pretty much whatever it pleased. That included promoting programs and policies to benefit what were termed “underserved groups.” An array of policies sought to enroll more students from such groups, add curricular offerings aimed at them, spend more money to help them succeed, and hire more minority faculty and administrators. Congress was happy to cooperate with this, and it approved of benefits for various “minority-serving institutions” under the Higher Education Act.

In those days, Congress approved of almost everything “progressives” did relating to higher education, and it did not matter that some students were treated as more important than others. If historically “marginalized” groups benefited while others were excluded, that was just part of advancing “social justice.” Discriminatory programs were all right so long as the discrimination seemed benign, only hurting white and Asian students a little.

Fortunately, things have changed in recent years. The courts and the Trump administration have decided to uphold the nation’s commitment to a colorblind society where government treats all citizens as equals, neither favoring nor disfavoring anyone due to race or other immutable characteristics.

In 2023, the Supreme Court held that colleges and universities that receive public funds cannot continue their policies of racial preference in choosing which students they admit. The Court ended its previous stance of deference to officials and their excuses for discrimination for or against students depending on their ancestry.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: college; racialpreferences

[faithhopecharity]

Much of the worst racism in USA exists and is actively promoted and taught at your local college campus. Ment of them, anyway. Check it out. You can see it all over their websites too so checking is very easy even if the breeze happens to be blowing the moral stench away. Much of the money paying for all this anti/

-American unconstitutional , anti- Christian, anti- Jewish racist krap is OUR TAX MONEY — even at many “private” colleges.

[Thommas]

But, whether that happens or not, for now the Department of Education will stop handing out grants under the program. Naturally, that has recipient
schools and defenders of the old regime of endless federal spending on educational programs that supposedly help “marginalized” groups up in arms.

Damned if you do, ditto if you don't. Thugs in school or thugs in the corner, the festering discontent continues.

[faithhopecharity]

Or washDC thugs stealing our liberties and money

[imardmd1]

The Humane Letters profs and administrators gained a whole lot of money just by inserting the letter “R” in the word
“undeserved”; thus “qualifying” applicants to sign for loans that cannot and will not be repaid.

[Verginius Rufus]

When I lived in Iowa a long time ago, the President of the University of Iowa announced his goal of having 8% black students at the University of Iowa. Currently Iowa is about 4% black but I think it was only about 2% black at that time. He probably foresaw luring black students from other states to Iowa in order to meet that quota. I don’t know what the current ethnic breakdown at the University of Iowa is.

[faithhopecharity]

yes. when i was a student we did have student loans. but you were sent to a local bank to interview for them. you got them, the banks were very good about issuing the loans because they looked forward to the students becoming good banking customers when they graduated and started earning their own way. Indeed, that happened a LOT. We were grateful to the bank for entrusting us with funds when we couldn’t repay or genuinely qualify to borrow them. A lot of gratitude made for good banking business...

Oh yeah, I am sure there were some lending losses (especially on loans to art and history and poli sci and sociology students). But most of those collection difficulties were NOT because the debtors were crooked and didn’t want to repay. It was just that certain college majors didn’t — and still don’t— qualify anyone for gainful employment.