AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EDUCATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration plans to encourage colleges to ignore race in their admissions process, abandoning guidelines that called on universities to consider race as a way of promoting diversity, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times reported on Tuesday [7-3-18]. The guidelines, put in place under President Barack Obama in 2011 and 2016, presented legal recommendations that Trump administration officials contend ‘mislead schools to believe that legal forms of affirmative action are simpler to achieve than the law allows,’ the Journal reported, citing two people familiar with the plans. The officials plan to argue the guidelines go beyond what the Supreme Court has decided on the issue, according to the Journal, which first reported the plan. The New York Times, citing unidentified Trump administration officials, said the new plan would do away with the existing policies and encourage schools not to consider race. The policy represents the official view of the federal government and schools that do not follow it could face action from the Justice Department or lose federal funding, it said.”
-Reuters Staff, “Trump to urge colleges to ignore race in admissions: media,” Reuters, July 3, 2018 5:32 am