Mit and Yale are among more than 50 universities, Trump’s administration explores in the middle of an anti-dei campaign
More than 50 universities are being investigated due to alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump’s campaignEnd programs of diversity, equality and inclusionThat his officials say that they exclude white and Asian -American students.
The Education Department has announced new investigations on Friday, one month afterMemorandum issuingLet’s warn American schools and colleges that they could lose federal money because of the “preferences based on race” in reception, scholarships or any aspect of student life.
“Students must be estimated at the merits and achievement, not the prejudice of their skin colors,” said education secretary Linda McMahon. “We will not loosen up with this obligation.”
Most of the new inquiries focus on the partnerships of college with a PHD project, a non -profit organization that helps students from insufficiently represented groups to acquire a diploma in business with the aim of diversifying the business world.
Department officials said that the group limited eligibility based on a race and that the faculties that are partner with it “included in race-collus practices in their graduate programs.”
A group of 45 colleges facing the supervision of a doctoral project include major public universities such as Arizona State, Ohio State and Rutgers, along with prestigious private schools such as Yale, Cornell, Duke and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The message sent to the doctoral project was not immediately returned.
Six other faculties are being investigated for the award of “illicit scholarships in the race,” he said in the ward, and the second was charged with running programs that separate students on the basis of race.
Those seven are: State University of Grand Valley, Ithaca Colley, New England College of Optometry, University of Alabami, University of Minnesota, University of South Florida and Faculty of Medicine, University of Tulsi.
The department did not say which of the seven is being investigated for charges of segregation.
On February 14, the Memorandum of Trump’s Republican Administration, was a great expansion of the Supreme Court’s decision 2023forbidden collegesfrom using a race as a factor in admission.
This decision focused on the reception of the admission to Harvard and the University of North Carolina, but the education department said he would interpret the decision to prohibit a race based on races in any aspect of education, both in schools K-12 and in higher education.
In the Memoranda, Craig Trainor, the acting of the Assistant Secretary for Civic Rights, said that efforts about diversity, equality and involvement of schools and college were “smuggling racial stereotypes and explicit lighting of the race in everyday training, programming and discipline.”
The memorial is challenged in the federal lawsuits of the two largest unions of teachers in the country. The lawsuit says that the letter is too unclear and violates the rights to the freedom of speech of the educator. More than 50 universities are being investigated due to alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign for End programs of diversity, equality and inclusion That his officials say that they exclude white and Asian -American students.
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