The Hill - The Trump administration is expanding its push against the use of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in university admissions, opening investigations into three medical schools.
Stanford University, The Ohio State University and the University of California, San Diego received letters Wednesday asking for seven years of data concerning applicants’ race, standardized test scores, relations to donors, ZIP codes and other information, The Hill’s Lexi Lonas Cochran reports.
The government is also demanding documents related to DEI use in admissions and other university communications regarding race, donor status and other information gathered during admissions. They were given a deadline of April 24 to comply.
The administration has prioritized trying to obtain various admissions data from universities during Trump’s second term, expressing concern that academic institutions are using other methods to get around a 2023 Supreme Court decision banning the use of affirmative action in admissions. Many universities have handed over admissions data or changed policies to abide by federal officials’ requests, while 17 Democratic-led states are suing to stop their universities’ admissions data from being collected.
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