An endowment tax can force selective colleges to pay for maintaining white student bodies.

Evidence

For decades, largely white administrators at selective universities have chosen to maintain the status quo (only sometimes tinkering around the edges). At the very least, we can make them pay for the right they’ve held, explicitly or implicitly, to maintain overwhelmingly white student bodies. Yes, the Supreme Court, with its burden of proof for racial discrimination, constrains what universities can do specifically for black students. However, they are not without options for more aggressive recruiting policies when it comes to low-income students or Pell Grant recipients. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 337

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to structural-racism-as-mechanism reading: a race-neutral endowment tax on institutions with overwhelmingly white enrollments makes colleges pay for the benefits of exclusion.