Trump Admin Investigating 50+ Universities
President Donald Trump’s Department of Education made the announcement on March 14, revealing that the decision was made after universities ignored an order to end their DEI programs or risk losing federal funding.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon noted in a statement that students deserve to be “assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin.”
“We will not yield on this commitment,” she vowed.
There are a total of 52 universities being investigated, with 45 of them being specifically scrutinized over their involvement with a radical group called the PhD Project. The Department of Education described the group as “an organization that purports to provide doctoral students with insights into obtaining a Ph.D. and networking opportunities, but limits eligibility based on the race of participants.”
The universities under investigation for their partnership with the PhD Project include Yale, Vanderbilt, Arizona State, New York University, Notre Dame, Boise State, Clemson, Cornell, Duke, and Georgetown.
Six of the 52 universities are under investigation for awarding “impermissible race-based scholarships,” according to the Department of Education, while one other university is being investigated for hosting “a program that segregates students on the basis of race.”
The investigations come soon after the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued a memo calling out educational institutions for engaging in discrimination against white and Asian students under the banner of DEI.
“American educational institutions have discriminated against students on the basis of race, including white and Asian students, many of whom come from disadvantaged backgrounds and low-income families,” Craig Trainor, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, wrote in the memo. “Proponents of these discriminatory practices have attempted to further justify them—particularly during the last four years—under the banner of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (“DEI”), smuggling racial stereotypes and explicit race-consciousness into everyday training, programming, and discipline.”
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