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Task force announced move to cancel funding from National Institutes of Health in retaliation for Harvard’s refusal

Task force combating antisemitism announced termination of grants from eight federal agencies

Department of Health and Human Services announced cuts in social media post

Agencies pulled or frozen grants from school and research partners totaling nearly $4 billion

Effort involves at least eight investigations spanning at least six agencies

Collection of the data is not necessarily a bad thing

Institutions should publish their data on legacy admissions or donor preference admissions

Order could face legal challenges if colleges or outside groups make the case that sharing some data could violate students’ privacy rights

Data could help students know exactly what is needed to get into certain colleges

Order would prompt litigation

Universities are playing a dangerous game in terms of opening themselves up to lawsuits when they use test scores

It is more meritocratic to look at a 1400 SAT score and consider information on whether the student earned that score went to private school had advantages in life or worked two jobs and went to a lousy school and managed to score really high anyway

Executive order might give colleges a further incentive to drop the use of standardized tests altogether

Broadly considering talents interests characteristics and other experiences could continue

Richard Kahlenberg supports class-based affirmative action which would give preferences to students from lower income groups

Using any holistic measurement is not fine as a proxy for race

Information will be reported publicly in a federal database called the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System or IPEDS under the new order

The Trump administration’s attempt to pressure colleges could resegregate elite higher education.

It is a chimera to think there is one way to pick the class that will make everybody happy.

Colleges often give preferences to children of alumni fencers French horn players and students with specialized skills.