Higher Education Legacy & Donor Admissions Preferences
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-23 — A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require the standards for accreditation of an institution of higher education to assess the institution’s adoption of admissions practices that refrain from preferential treatment in admissions based on an applicant’s relationship to alumni of, or donors to, the institution, to authorize a feasibility study on data collection, and for other purposes.: S5116 (119th Congress, HELP referral) would amend the Higher Education Act to require accreditors to assess whether institutions refrain from admissions preferences based on applicants’ relationships to alumni or donors, and would authorize a feasibility study on related data collection. (novelty: 3)