New Trump Order Will Decertify Colleges Over DEI

An “exclusive scoop” from the Heritage Foundation:

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday prohibiting higher education accreditors from participating in unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion discrimination, five sources familiar with the directive told The Daily Signal.

The Wednesday order will ensure accreditors comply with federal anti-discrimination law like Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order prohibiting DEI practices in federal funded education. It will also create accreditation processes that reduce barriers to streamline programs; instruct accreditors to give more deference to state law; and target credential inflation, the devaluation of educational or academic credentials over time, a senior administration confirmed to The Daily Signal.

The medical school accreditation program, the LCME, has pushed DEI in medical schools for years. For instance, the University of Kansas Medical Center School of Medicine requires students to meet “diversity objectives and competencies” through assignments that demand a focus on “social determinants to health.”

Read the full article. For those somehow unaware, the Heritage Foundation is an anti-LGBTQ hate group and the originators of Project 2025.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday prohibiting higher education accreditors from acting against colleges over diversity, equity, and inclusion rules, five sources familiar with the directive told The Daily Signal.

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