President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday prohibiting college and university accreditors from engaging in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) discrimination by requiring schools to imbibe the ideology in order to receive accreditation.
Trump’s order requires that accreditors abide by federal anti-discrimination law, which the Trump administration considers to include DEI as it creates advantages and disadvantages based entirely on race, sex, or claims of different gender identities.
“A group of higher education accreditors are the gatekeepers that decide which colleges and universities American students can spend the more than $100 billion in Federal student loans and Pell Grants dispersed each year,” the order reads. “The accreditors’ job is to determine which institutions provide a quality education — and therefore merit accreditation. Unfortunately, accreditors have not only…
