Posted on 08/07/2025 3:17:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order requiring colleges to submit data to prove they do not consider race in admissions.
In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against the use of affirmative action in admissions but said colleges may still consider how race has shaped students’ lives if applicants share that information in their admissions essays.
Trump’s Republican administration is accusing colleges of using personal statements and other proxies to consider race, which conservatives view as illegal discrimination.
The role of race in admissions has featured in the administration’s battle against some of the nation’s most elite colleges — viewed by Republicans as liberal hotbeds. For example, the executive order is similar to parts of recent settlement agreements the government negotiated with Brown University and Columbia University, restoring their federal research money. The universities agreed to give the government data on the race, grade point average and standardized test scores of applicants, admitted students and enrolled students. The schools also agreed to an audit by the government and to release admissions statistics to the public.
Conservatives have argued that despite the Supreme Court ruling, colleges have continued to consider race through proxy measures.
The executive order makes the same argument. “The lack of available admissions data from universities — paired with the rampant use of ‘diversity statements’ and other overt and hidden racial proxies — continues to raise concerns about whether race is actually used in admissions decisions in practice,” said a fact sheet shared by the White House ahead of the Thursday signing.
The first year of admissions data after the Supreme Court ruling showed no clear pattern in how colleges’ diversity changed...
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It is impossible to prove absence.
I went to private universities.
Show them the money, you got access to education.
Race never entered into it.
This BS of trying to educate idiots
based on race must stop!
God Bless this man, Donald J. Trump.
Hmmm, they must affirmatively prove no-bias.
They could start by not asking the race of the applicant.
The shredders are working overtime.
Imagine. Science that competes on the world stage
https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-national-science-foundation-education-grant-funding
The msm always wants proof from the GOP but never the Dems. The GOP never has any proof in their eyes.
I couldn’t agree more. It just foolish the way it now works.
That is a really great start, isn’t it?
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