The administration's policy echoes settlement agreements the government negotiated with Brown University and Columbia University, restoring their federal research money. The universities agreed to give the government data on the race, grade-point average and standardized test scores of applicants, admitted students and enrolled students. The schools also agreed to be audited by the government and to release admissions statistics to the public.
I wasn’t clear on what data they’re requesting under the lawsuit, but if it’s the same data they say they requested from Brown and Columbia I find that kind of funny because my federally funded org was explicitly told by the fed we could not report race or gender statistics.