Higher Education and Civil Rights Law

Federal Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV on Friday enjoined a Trump administration directive requiring public universities in 17 Democratic‑led states to supply seven years of race‑ and sex‑disaggregated admissions data, finding the National Center for Education Statistics’ 120‑day rollout was "rushed and chaotic" and amounted to arbitrary and capricious agency action. The Education Department said the data were needed to detect potential proxy use of race and cited prior Brown and Columbia settlement templates and possible Title IV consequences, while state attorneys general and universities argued the regime would invade student privacy and impose burdens—leading the court to say the government may seek such information in principle but not through this implementation.