Author: Chris Quintana / Source: USA TODAY
Texas Tech University’s medical school will stop considering race in its admissions process, the latest effort by the Trump administration to curb affirmative action in colleges.
The decision means the school will not consider race or nationality as a factor in its admissions process.
Texas Tech seemed ready to argue that it wasn’t violating federal laws, but acquiesced to the Education Department’s demands to focus on educating future healthcare students, according to a letter from the university to the Education Department.
As part of the agreement, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, the…
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