The Justice Department said it uncovered evidence that the University of California at Los Angeles’ medical school intentionally and illegally selected applicants based on their race.
The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
President Donald Trump’s administration has opened a new front in its campaign to reshape US colleges, homing in on racial diversity at some of the top medical schools in the country.
The Stanford University School of Medicine Source: Google Street View
The US Department of Education proposed a raft of changes to college oversight guidelines on Monday, moves that would upend the traditional regulatory framework for universities and amplify the Trump administration’s higher education policy agenda.
The Department of Education headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. There was no sign of progress as government workers and military personnel prepare for missed paychecks and the general public begins to feel the effects of the closure on everything from taxpayer services to air travel. Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg
The US Department of Justice is investigating medical-school admissions policies at Stanford University, Ohio State University and University of California at San Diego over possible racial discrimination, part of a campaign by the Trump administration to reshape higher education.
The School of Medicine at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
The Trump administration said Monday it has initiated two new investigations into Harvard University over alleged antisemitism on campus and racially discriminatory admissions practices.
Pedestrians walk through Harvard Yard on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Colleges are racing to comply with President Donald Trump’s demand for sweeping admissions data and bracing for those records to fuel a new crackdown on campus diversity efforts. They face a Wednesday deadline to submit these documents, even as a federal judge considers whether that mandate is enforceable.
Students on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Trump administration is transferring management of the $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio from the Department of Education to the Department of the Treasury, the most significant step yet in the White House’s efforts to dismantle a cabinet-level agency.
Commuters outside the Department of Education in Washington. Photographer: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg
Republicans have been trying to dissolve the Department of Education since it was created. Under Trump, they've come closer to making that a reality, dismantling it step by step.
The school may be less inclined to cut a deal that can be revoked later.
Banners on the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to divert billions in grant dollars away from Harvard University and give those funds to trade schools across the US, escalating his clash with the elite institution. Photographer: Sophie Park/Bloomberg
After a months-long lull in the White House’s battle with Harvard University, President Donald Trump has thrust the school back into the spotlight and dramatically ratcheted up the financial stakes of their showdown.
The Lowell House on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Trump administration has paused its efforts to seize student debt from borrowers’ paychecks, the Education Department said Friday, as the White House makes a concerted push around an affordability agenda ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
The Trump administration will begin to seize student debt repayments from the wages of borrowers in default early next year, the US Education Department said Tuesday, a long-promised move that threatens to hit some of the most economically-vulnerable households in the country.
rf University Students Wearing Mortarboard During Event graduation ceremony college Photographer: Rattanakun Thongbun / EyeEm/EyeEm
OpenAI has established a beachhead at many US colleges, overcoming university administrators’ wariness of artificial intelligence and giving ChatGPT a headstart on becoming the go-to assistant for the next generation of workers.
The California State University system is paying OpenAI $15 million a year to provide ChatGPT to 500,000 people.
The Trump administration has ordered more than 260 federal workers it has been trying to fire since March to return to work on Dec. 15 while a court case over their final status drags on.
The Department of Education headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. There was no sign of progress as government workers and military personnel prepare for missed paychecks and the general public begins to feel the effects of the closure on everything from taxpayer services to air travel.
Northwestern University is closing in on a deal with President Donald Trump’s administration to pay roughly $75 million in order to restore about $790 million in frozen federal research grants, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.
People walk by the school arch on the Northwestern University campus on March 31 in Evanston, Illinois.
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