The U.S. Department of Justice filed a discrimination lawsuit against Yale University Thursday after the elite school refused to eliminate race considerations from its admissions process, escalating the fight over the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to rollback university affirmative action policies nationwide.
A two-year investigation by the Justice Department released in August concluded race is “the determinative factor” in hundreds of admissions at Yale, effectively discriminating against Asian American and white applicants with comparable academic credential to Black applicants who are accepted to the university, investigators said.
The Justice Department ordered Yale not to consider race or national origin in its upcoming undergraduate admission cycle or face legal action.