The executive order on historically black colleges and universities that President Trump signed yesterday did not contain the numerical, percentage goals (i.e., quotas) for federal funding and contracting that some had been pushing for — as I discussed earlier this week, here — and for that we should be grateful to the administration. Whether it is wise, or even constitutional, for the federal government to continue to single out these schools for special treatment in other, vaguer respects is a question that should also be considered. For now, though, many thanks.