Trump administration opens investigations into race in admissions at 3 medical schools
Source: ABC News/AP
March 26, 2026, 3:35 PM
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has opened investigations into how race is considered in admissions at three medical schools, ratcheting up its pressure campaign against colleges and universities.
The Justice Department opened the investigations Wednesday into possible discrimination at the medical schools of Stanford University, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego. Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights, announced the investigations on X.
President Donald Trump has been ramping up scrutiny of universities he decries as overrun by liberal influence, using control of federal research funding as leverage. His administration has demanded selective colleges provide undergraduate admissions data to show they are in line with a 2023 Supreme Court decision forbidding affirmative action in college admissions. The investigations were reported first by The New York Times.
In a letter to Ohio State, Dhillon wrote that the Justice Department was seeking any documents related to “the use or lack of use of race” in evaluating applicants. She said they were also seeking all applicant-level admissions data and any reviews by the school of admissions trends or outcomes by race.
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Ethnic cleansing.