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Trump orders colleges to prove they don’t consider race in admissions
AP News ^ | Updated 3:01 PM CDT, August 7, 2025 | ANNIE MA and JOCELYN GECKER

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


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1 posted on 08/07/2025 3:17:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It is impossible to prove absence.


2 posted on 08/07/2025 3:20:41 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

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!


3 posted on 08/07/2025 3:27:12 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
THIS is the way. NEVER let up...press them 24/7/365. Make them spend millions in legal fees and always be looking over their shoulders. This is what the left has done for decades, but the GOP was too weaselly to even try.

God Bless this man, Donald J. Trump.

4 posted on 08/07/2025 3:34:49 PM PDT by montag813
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hmmm, they must affirmatively prove no-bias.


5 posted on 08/07/2025 3:37:34 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: GingisK

They could start by not asking the race of the applicant.


6 posted on 08/07/2025 3:49:23 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The shredders are working overtime.


7 posted on 08/07/2025 3:51:10 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Imagine. Science that competes on the world stage

https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-national-science-foundation-education-grant-funding


8 posted on 08/07/2025 4:01:19 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
To hear them tell it, they are required to consider race in the admissions process.
9 posted on 08/07/2025 4:10:18 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The msm always wants proof from the GOP but never the Dems. The GOP never has any proof in their eyes.


10 posted on 08/07/2025 4:38:39 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: rellic

I couldn’t agree more. It just foolish the way it now works.


11 posted on 08/07/2025 4:42:23 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: MV=PY

That is a really great start, isn’t it?


12 posted on 08/07/2025 4:43:03 PM PDT by GingisK
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