Missouri universities comply with Dept. of Education data collection
Universities in Missouri are complying with the Department of Education’s request for information about theirt students, according a new report from KBIA.
President Donald Trump demanded last August that federally funded Title IV universities hand over six years of enrollment data. A deadline for complying lands in March.
Missouri State and the University of Missouri are reportedly among the institutions rushing to comply with the demand, in part to avoid fines exceeding as much as $71,000 per violation.
The level of detail in the data being demanded by Trump White House is beyond what universities have been required to report previously. A second memo from the White House demanded data that included race, gender, test scores, high school GPAs and family incomes.
One analyst told KBIA he worried of a “cooling effect” on universities admissions offices as the Trump administration continues to wage its war on “woke” institutions.
