September 11, 2026

In her latest article for The Conversation, Betsy Schmidt, senior research fellow in public policy, argues that the Trump Administration's plan to strip nonprofit universities and colleges of their tax-exempt status through new rulemaking for using race as a criterion will likely end up mired in the courts. In the piece, Schmidt argues that the rule change, proposed by the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has elements that are "unclear" and that the government may lack the authority to implement the rule. 

Read the piece in detail at The Conversation.