Washington Post: "Trump's Attack on DEI May Hurt College Men, Particularly White Men"

Trump’s Attacks on DEI May Hurt Men in College Admission

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. Brown University, one of the most selective institutions in America, attracted nearly 50,000 applicants who vied for just 1,700 freshman seats last year. The university accepted nearly equal numbers of male and female prospects, even though, like some other schools, it got nearly twice as many female applicants. That math meant it was easi…

Washington Post: "Trump's Attack on DEI May Hurt College Men, Particularly White Men"

The federal Title IX provisions generally ban discrimination based on sex in federally supported higher education programs—but they specifically exempt sex discrimination by undergraduate private universities (and not just single-sex ones). And, according to Thursday's Washington Post article, there is evidence that elite private universities are taking advantage of that to discriminate in favor of men: [Brown University] accepted nearly equal n…