United States President Donald Trump is preparing to sign an order that would require universities to disclose to the federal government data about their student admissions.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the news in a post on the social media platform X, reposting an article from the right-wing publication The Daily Caller.
Trump has long sought to exert greater control over the country’s higher education system, which he and other prominent Republicans consider ideologically skewed.
At the same time, Trump has also sought to dismantle initiatives to promote diversity, equity and inclusion — goals known collectively by the acronym DEI — on the basis that such efforts are inherently discriminatory.
Rolling back DEI
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