Higher Education

Diversity bureaucracies have spent billions of dollars without closing racial achievement gaps in graduation or earnings. Colorblind standards, rigorous curricula, and expanded school choice offer the only proven path to genuine upward mobility for all students.

Diversity statements in faculty hiring function as ideological gatekeeping, suppress dissent in classrooms, and undermine the open inquiry that universities promised to protect after the June 2023 affirmative action ruling.

Elite universities have swapped explicit racial preferences for essay prompts, adversity indexes, and soft quotas that still sort students by ancestry, so policymakers should require transparent race-neutral standards that reward achievement rather than identity.

The Supreme Court ended explicit racial preferences in 2023, but elite universities now disguise the same quotas through essays and socioeconomic proxies. Race-neutral admissions based on individual merit would help students match schools where they can actually succeed.

Republican lawmakers flagged 23 U.S. universities as high-risk for CCP influence while receiving federal taxpayer dollars. Universities failed to report $6.5 billion in foreign gifts since 2014, and no institution has ever been penalized under the applicable federal law.