Schools face deadline to end diversity initiatives under Trump guidelines
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Trump administration has threatened to pull federal funding from K-12 schools and universities |
| 0:07.0 | that consider race in any way. |
| 0:09.0 | The Education Department argues the Supreme Court's ruling outlawing race in college admissions applies much more broadly, |
| 0:16.0 | including, quote, using race and decisions pertaining to admissions, hiring, promotion, compensation, |
| 0:23.0 | financial aid, scholarships, prizes, administrative support, discipline, housing, graduation |
| 0:28.5 | ceremonies, and all other aspects. |
| 0:31.4 | The deadline for schools to comply is tomorrow. |
| 0:34.5 | All of this is sparking confusion and legal challenges. |
| 0:39.4 | For a look now as part of our ongoing series, Race Matters, I'm joined by Angel Perez, CEO of the National Association for |
| 0:45.6 | College Admission Counseling, and David Law, superintendent of the Minnetonka School District in |
| 0:50.9 | Minnesota and the incoming president of the school superintendent's association. |
| 0:55.4 | Welcome to you both and thanks for being with us. Angel, I want to start with you because based on the |
| 0:59.8 | guidance, the administration has sent out, is it clear to you what compliance looks like? |
| 1:06.0 | What does it mean to meet this deadline tomorrow? Well, therein lies the challenge. It's not clear. |
| 1:11.0 | The dear colleague letter was pretty evasive, and so colleges and universities have been really |
| 1:15.6 | struggling. |
| 1:16.3 | What does this mean? |
| 1:17.5 | So, for example, maybe some of the things that they might consider is eliminating student |
| 1:23.3 | clubs and organizations that are race-based. |
| 1:25.4 | That might seem a little bit obvious. |
| 1:27.1 | But what's not obvious is diversity is embedded into everything on college campus. |
| 1:30.9 | So does that mean we can no longer have women's centers? |
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