Trump administration rescinds Obama-era guidance that encouraged schools to consider a student’s race to help promote diversity in admissions

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• The Trump administration is scaling back on Obama-era guidance that encouraged schools to take a student’s race into account to promote diversity in admissions.
• The admissions memos were among 24 policy documents revoked by the Justice Department for being “unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law, or otherwise improper.”
• Though such guidance doesn’t have the force of law, schools could presumably use it to defend themselves against lawsuits over admission policies.
• Civil liberties groups criticized the Trump administration’s announcement, saying it went against decades of court precedent permitting colleges to take race into account.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded Obama-era guidance that encouraged schools to take a student’s race into account to promote diversity in admissions.

The shift suggests schools will have the federal government’s blessing to leave race out of admissions and enrollment decisions, and it underscores the contentious politics that continue to surround affirmative action policies, which have repeatedly been challenged before the Supreme Court.

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