President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday that will expand the requirements for colleges to report their admissions information.

The memorandum seeks to ensure that colleges report all the necessary information to the Department of Education to show they do not base their admissions on race.

The measure is part of the administration's fight against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and aims to reveal whether schools are still prioritizing race in admissions even after the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in 2023.

Thursday's memo states that “the lack of available admissions data at colleges, coupled with the widespread use of ‘diversity statements’ and other overt and hidden racial proxies, continues to raise concerns about whether race is actually used in admissions decisions in practice.”

The directive will allow Education Secretary Linda McMahon, reform higher education data collection, deepen federal reporting requirements, and increase penalties for schools that submit inaccurate information.

In addition, the order will make the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System the nation's primary source of college data, making it easier to access and understand.

Any failure by Trump to comply with the directive could prevent schools from receiving federal financial assistance.

Trump has already withdrawn billions of dollars in funding from schools due to admissions requirements and alleged acts of racial bias or discrimination.

Shortly after the new directive was released, Secretary of Education ordered the National Center for Education Statistics to begin collecting additional data from schools on their applicants.

“Higher education institutions will now be required to report data disaggregated by race and sex,” According to a statement from the Department of Education, they "will include quantitative measures of applicants' and admitted students' academic performance, such as standardized test scores, grade point average (GPA), and other applicant characteristics."