Duke Univ. president: Diversity forces new view of problems
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — As questions about the Trump administration's direction on race and college admissions swirled this week, the new president of Duke University said his tenure would seek to expand diversity at the elite private campus while preserving fairness.
The department later said it had no broad plans to investigate whether university admission programs discriminate against students based on race, but was focused on an administrative complaint by Asian-American associations against Harvard University.
Recent years have seen America's elite private colleges, many of which have drawn criticism over race-conscious admission policies, become increasingly diverse.
Racial data on Duke graduate programs training more than 9,000 physicians, lawyers, business executives and others were not included in the federal data.
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