Universities

Admissions data

April 6 - Judge Dennis Saylor IV (D. Mass.) issued a preliminary injunction on Friday blocking the Department of Education from compelling universities to turn over detailed admissions data. The scope of relief extends to 17 plaintiff states and their constituent institutions. (Memorandum and Order.) (Preliminary Injunction.) (Politico.) For background, see a previous Roundup.
March 27 - The Trump administration has reportedly opened civil rights investigations into the use of race in medical school admissions at Stanford University, Ohio State University, and the University of California, San Diego. (WSJ.)

Oct. 21 - Six out of the nine universities that were invited to join the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” have publicly rejected the offer. (WaPo.)
Oct. 17 - The University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California on Thursday declined to sign President Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” a proposal to give funding preferences to schools that agree to certain concessions. (NYT.) (Compact.)
Oct. 16 - Brown University rejected the Trump administration’s offer to join the “Compact for Academic Excellence,” which would grant preferential access to federal funding in exchange for meeting a set of conditions. (NYT.)
Oct. 2 - The Trump administration invited nine universities to join the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” a 10-point memo promising preferential access to federal funding in exchange for meeting a set of conditions. (WSJ.)

March 24 - The Education Department has launched two new investigations into Harvard University relating to antisemitism and admissions practices. (NYT.)
March 23 - The Justice Department on Friday sued Harvard College in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 over the school’s alleged refusal to take action against antisemitism. The suit claims Harvard remained “deliberately indifferent” despite its awareness of discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students and seeks to both compel Title VI compliance and rescind of billions of dollars in federal funding for breach of contract. (Complaint.) (NYT.)
Feb. 17 - The Justice Department filed a complaint against Harvard University on Friday alleging that it failed to comply with a federal investigation related to racial discrimination in its admissions process. (Complaint.) (WSJ.)

Feb. 3 - Anonymous sources told the New York Times that the Trump administration is no longer pushing for a monetary payment in its settlement negotiations with Harvard University. Six hours after the Times story ran, President Trump claimed it was inaccurate and wrote on Truth Social that he was now seeking $1 billion “in damages” from the university. (Truth Social.) (NYT.)
Dec. 1 - Northwestern University on Friday agreed to pay the federal government $75 million to restore suspended research funding and resolve three federal investigations. It is the sixth deal that the administration has reached with an elite university. (NYT.)
Oct. 23 - The University of Virginia on Wednesday reached a settlement with the Trump administration that halts Justice Department investigations into its admissions and civil rights policies, with the university agreeing to follow the administration’s interpretation of the Supreme Court’s 2023 affirmative action ruling and provide quarterly compliance updates. (NYT.)

Nov. 26 - The Education Department is investigating UC Berkeley after a student protest of a Turning Point USA event in September turned “unruly and violent.” (NYT.)
Nov. 17 - Judge Rita F. Lin (N.D. Cal.) on Friday granted a preliminary injunction that bars the administration from “refusing to grant, non-renewing, withholding, freezing, suspending, terminating, conditioning, or otherwise restricting use of federal funds, or threatening to do so, to the University of California.” (Order.) (Order Granting Motion for Preliminary Injunction.) (NYT.)
Nov. 7 - Judge Rita F. Lin (N.D. Cal.) at a hearing on Thursday described the Trump administration’s threats and investigations into the University of California as undermining academic freedom. (NYT.)