"When President Donald Trump took office last year, America's research universities were in the midst of an aggressive quest to hire more Black and Latino professors. All but three of the 187 most prominent schools had made public commitments to faculty diversity, pushed by years of student protests and demands. Deploying a wide range of strategies, these schools mademodest progress toward their racial diversity goals."
"Now most of these efforts are on ice or abandoned as the Trump administration attacks schools for their diversity, equity and inclusion work. Federal agencies have openedinvestigations and withheld billions of dollars in federal funding as leverage. Some conservative states have banned these diversity efforts altogether. It's part of the federal government's wholesale flip of its interpretation of the Civil Rights Act, which was used for decades to ensure opportunity for people of color."
When President Donald Trump took office last year, America's research universities were in the midst of an aggressive quest to hire more Black and Latino professors. All but three of the 187 most prominent schools had made public commitments to faculty diversity. Underrepresented faculty increased from 9 percent in 2015 to 12 percent in 2024 among faculty whose race was known, remaining lower than undergraduate diversity. Federal agencies opened investigations and withheld billions in funding, and some states enacted bans, prompting at least 108 of 184 pledged universities to fully or partially roll back diversity efforts. Growth outcomes varied across institutions.
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