Yale Deal - Part 7 (background)

From the Yale Daily News: After the 2023 Supreme Court ruling that banned race-conscious college admissions, Yale administrators quickly assured the community that the University would comply with federal law while attempting to maintain diversity. Now, the University is under federal investigation for allegedly failing to comply with the ruling. In May, the Department of Justice announced an investigation into the Yale School of Medicine’s admissions practices, alleging the school had discriminated against Asian and white applicants. The investigation’s scope has since expanded to admissions at Yale College and Yale Law School, and University President Maurie McInnis confirmed... that Yale is in the process of seeking a voluntary resolution with the federal government over the probe.

At the center of the investigation is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which bars racial discrimination for programs that receive federal funding — and a 2023 Supreme Court decision, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which outlawed race-based affirmative action. A May letter of findings issued by the Justice Department alleged the School of Medicine’s admissions process violated that law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court decision. Experts told the News that Yale’s alleged violation may depend on whether the University found ways to circumvent the Supreme Court decision — like using a proxy for race — and whether those methods are considered illegal...

[DOJ] pointed to materials and presentations distributed to admissions officers that included guidance on admissions after the Supreme Court decision — including a slide in an internal presentation with the words, “Admissions post-SCOTUS.” “This suggests that admissions personnel are given verbal instructions during this presentation encouraging the use of race/ethnicity in admissions, and such instructions are not put in writing,” the letter reads. “The Department also has evidence that Yale attempted to circumvent the Harvard decision by using racial proxies to indirectly discriminate against applicants based on race.”

The Justice Department has not publicly released letters of findings for its investigations into Yale College or the Law School, nor has it publicly commented on those investigations. The department did not respond to a request for comment...

Full story at https://yaledailynews.com/articles/yale-admissions-is-under-investigation-could-it-have-broken-the-law.

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Note: If you have been following this Yale sequence and have been wondering about the Hebrew writing on the Yale seal (shown above), see:

https://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/01_03/seal.html.