Yale faces backlash for talks with the Justice Department regarding its admissions
The federal inquiry also covers Yale College and Yale Law School, while faculty and student leaders urge the university to resist a settlement.
- Yale University President Maurie McInnis confirmed the university is negotiating with the Department of Justice over alleged racial discrimination in its medical school admissions processes.
- The DOJ alleges Yale continued race-based admissions, citing data showing Black applicants had 29 times higher odds of receiving interview offers than equally qualified Asian applicants.
- McInnis defended the university's holistic process, stating "academic strength" remains the main consideration, while the 2023 Supreme Court ruling mandates strict compliance with federal law.
- Faculty and alumni, including Kica Matos and Sen. Chris Murphy, have criticized the negotiations, urging the university to defend its practices in court rather than seek settlement.
- As the DOJ has launched investigations into 15 additional medical schools, experts warn this "voluntary resolution" approach creates precedent for the Trump administration to pressure higher education.
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Three years after the Supreme Court’s 2023 landmark decision to strike down racial preferences in college admissions, the federal government is still triple-checking whether elite universities got the memo. Recent agreements with Brown University and Northwestern University show the toll institutions pay for burying racial preferences under new language and “holistic review.” For Northwestern, that price was to the tune of $75 million to the Un…
Yale faces backlash for talks with the Justice Department regarding its admissions
In this April 29, 2024, file photo, Yale University President Maurie McInnis attends an event in New York. (John Lamparski/Getty Images, FILE) (NEW HAVEN, Conn.) — Yale University said it’s negotiating with the Department of Justice over a potential resolution of the Trump administration’s findings of alleged racial discrimination in its medical school’s admissions processes, according to a statement by the university’s president. President Maur…
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