{"id":5503,"date":"2025-04-27T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/trump-targets-higher-education-accreditation-calling-aba-diversity-standards-unlawful\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:51:06","slug":"trump-targets-higher-education-accreditation-calling-aba-diversity-standards-unlawful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/trump-targets-higher-education-accreditation-calling-aba-diversity-standards-unlawful\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Targets Higher Education Accreditation, Calling ABA Diversity Standards &#8216;Unlawful&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting higher education accreditation practices and calling out the American Bar Association (ABA), citing &#8220;unlawful race-based preferences&#8221; and &#8220;ideological overreach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>With his latest order, Trump said he is tackling what he refers to as a \u201cbroken accreditation system that has left students with soaring debt, low graduation rates and degrees of questionable value\u201d and aims to protect American students, families and taxpayers from \u201cexploitative and unlawful practices in higher education,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/04\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reforms-accreditation-to-strengthen-higher-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fact sheet<\/a> stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting higher education accreditation practices and calling out the American Bar Association (ABA), citing &#8220;unlawful race-based preferences&#8221; and &#8220;ideological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[149,5680,5681,1186,1024,4614,5682,1592,409,2366],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-aba","tag-accreditation","tag-calling","tag-diversity","tag-education","tag-higher","tag-standards","tag-targets","tag-trump","tag-unlawful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}