"Interestingly, given this is an administration that has said they don't want race to be a factor in decision-making, they want to count up all the admissions decisions and disaggregate by race to see how that is all working out,"
"[That] says to me, what they're most interested in is increasing the presence of white people in those institutions."
"If you are recruiting in a community that has a high percentage of Black or Latinx or Asian [students] ... but has a low number of white students, then would you say that's geographic targeting that is any different from the geographic targeting you were doing in the wealthy white community? Seems to me it is not different, so I think it's a lawsuit waiting to happen,"
"And that is the history of HBCUs, right? They were created originally because there was no space, no place for that Black talent to be educated,"
The administration requires selective institutions to report admissions outcomes disaggregated by race and prohibits use of geographic proxies for recruitment. The mandate emphasizes counting admissions decisions by racial category and could functionally aim to increase white presence at selective colleges. Treating recruitment in predominantly Black, Latinx, or Asian communities as equivalent to recruiting in wealthy white areas raises legal and constitutional questions and is likely to prompt litigation. The policy landscape may drive more Black students toward Historically Black Colleges and Universities, while federal investment in HBCUs risks reflecting a retrograde, 1950s-style approach to racial separation and opportunity.
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