The Trump administration’s pursuit of colleges for making racial preferences an unfair part of the admissions process bore some fruit on Tuesday, as Texas Tech University’s medical school announced it would stop using race when it considered which students to accept.
As The Wall Street Journal reported, the issue between the federal government and the university dates back to 2003, when the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that universities could weigh race in admissions decisions. The university then started using applicants’ race and national origin when considering whom to accept into the school. In 2004, a complaint was filed against the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine by the Center for Equal Opportunity with the Education Department’s civil rights division; the department launched an investigation in 2005.
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