Straws in the Wind - Part 142

From The Dartmouth: The College rejected multiple requests for information over the past month from The Dartmouth about the Class of 2029’s racial and ethnic demographics. In previous years, Dartmouth admissions published a “class profile” that included data about demographics such as geographic, gender, income and racial and ethnic background. Last year, this information was released on Sept. 16, 2024. Though published data from Dartmouth admissions included the admitted Class of 2029’s geographic and income backgrounds, it did not include information about gender or racial and ethnic backgrounds.

...Since January, the Trump administration has put pressure on higher-education institutions to halt the use of proxies for race in admissions. Among the terms of the administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which was received by the College and eight other universities on Oct. 1, is a requirement that universities admissions decisions are “based on and evaluated against objective criteria.” 

“No factor such as sex, ethnicity, race, nationality, political views, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious associations or proxies for any of those factors shall be considered, explicitly or implicitly, in any decision related to undergraduate or graduate student admissions or financial support, with due exceptions for institutions that are solely or primarily comprised of students of a specific sex or religious denomination,” the compact states...

Full story at https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2025/10/dartmouth-declines-to-release-full-class-of-2029-profile-amid-testing-and-affirmative-action-changes.