The Biden Education Department’s new requirement for colleges to provide six years of disaggregated admissions and applicant data has sparked legal pushback and a temporary judicial check. Seventeen states filed suit arguing the Department unlawfully expanded IPEDS reporting and imposed onerous burdens; they asked a federal judge to block the survey. Separately, another federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s demand for seven years of student race data in a separate action, citing procedural defects. The litigation threatens large‑scale reporting deadlines, forces campus institutional research offices to reallocate resources, and raises questions about federal oversight of admissions practices following the 2023 Supreme Court rulings on race-conscious admissions.