WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning to sign an executive order requiring the university to submit data to prove that the university does not consider the race of admission, according to a fact sheet shared by the White House ahead of its signature on Thursday.
In 2023, the Supreme Court opposed the use of Positive behavior in enrollment However, if the applicant shares that information in the admissions essay, the university may still consider how race shapes the lives of students.
Trump’s Republican administration accuses him of using universities Personal Statement Other proxies that consider race.
Executive Orders are similar to some of Settlement agreement The government negotiated Brown University and Columbia Universityrecover federal research funds. The university agreed to provide data to the government on applicant races, grade point averages, standardized test scores, hospitalized students and standardized test scores for students. The school also agreed to publish government audits and public statistics.
Conservatives argued that despite the Supreme Court ruling, the university continues to consider race through proxy measures. However, the first year of post-ruling admissions did not emerge clearly in how diversity in the university had changed. The results are dramatically different From one campus to the next.
Some schools, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Amherst College, saw a sharp decline in the proportion of black students in the next class. However, at other elites, selective schools such as Yale, Princeton and the University of Virginia, the change was less than 1 percentage point a year.
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