India, Aug. 7 -- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump is expected to sign a memorandum requiring universities with federal funding to submit their admissions data to prove that they are not engaging in any discriminatory practices.

Leavitt shared the news on the microblogging platform X.

The presidential memorandum, which Trump is expected to approve on Thursday, directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to expand the scope of requiring reports from institutions' admissions data to "provide adequate transparency" and "to increase accuracy checks" on that data, CNN reported.

The US Supreme Court had in June 2023 ruled that colleges and universities could not longer consider race as...