College Board Discontinues Tool Used By Schools To Racially Discriminate

The College Board, a non -profit association was focused on assistance to schools and students during the admission process, announced Tuesday that it had ended a tool that provided demographic information on schools and neighborhoods to universities.

Landscape information has enabled colleges and universities to assume students during the admission process using data on the school’s income or student district, allowing schools effectively to use these statistics as a breed indicator. College Board has cited the evolution of federal policy and the State in its decision to close the program.

“Since 2016, the landscape has provided coherent information on secondary schools and neighborhoods to help colleges better understand where students live and learn,” wrote the decision of the decision. “While federal and state policy continues to evolve around the way in which institutions use demographic and geographic information in admissions, we bring a change to ensure that our work continues to serve students and institutions effectively.”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology students and activists have signs during a rally to support a positive action held at MIT Student Center on March 18, 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Douglas McFadd / Getty Images)

The landscape “has been intentionally developed without the use or consideration of data on race or ethnicity”, but the data it provided allowed schools to make hypotheses in order to diversify their student bodies. (Related: these medical schools cannot racally stop gerrymandering their student body)

Despite the decision of the Supreme Court in 2023 that schools could not use the race as a factor in admission decisions, several schools have found ways to bypass the decision by using other proxies to assume the race, such as the use of the location of a student and the income level, encouraging students to discuss their race in application tests, using recruitment tactics that target On demographic groups or mud to target groups of “subcontracts”. The Ministry of Health and Social Services (HHS) and the Ministry of Education (ED) under the Trump administration have clearly indicated that even breed proxies are prohibited under the decision of the Supreme Court and the Civil Rights Act.

ED’s memo on February 14, describing how the administration will apply the decision of positive action has recently been blocked by a federal court, although the ministry has still been able to open dozens of surveys on the basis of the Supreme Court decision.

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