More than 50 universities are confronted with federal studies as part of Trump’s anti-dei campaign

Washington – More than 50 universities are investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump campaign put an end to diversity, fairness and inclusion programs These are civil servants say that white and Asian American students exclude.

The educational department announced the new investigations on Friday, a month after Spend a memo The schools and colleges of America warn that they can lose federal money over “raced preferences” in admission, fairs or any aspect of student life.

“Students must be assessed on the basis of merit and performance, not prior to the color of their skin,” said teaching secretary Linda McMahon in a statement. “We will not surrender to this commitment.”

Most new questions are aimed at the partnerships of colleges with the PHD project, a non -profit organization that helps students of under -represented groups to achieve degrees in business with the aim of diversifying the business world.

Department officials said that the group limits the suitability on the basis of race and that colleges who work together “are involved in racing-exclusive practices in their graduated programs.”

The group of 45 colleges that are confronted with control over ties with the promotion project includes large public universities such as Arizona State, Ohio State and Rutgers, together with prestigious private schools such as Yale, Cornell, Duke and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A message sent to the PhD project was not immediately returned.

Six other colleges are being investigated for awarding ‘unacceptable racing fairs’, the department said, and another is accused of running a program that separates students based on racing.

Those are seven: Grand Valley State University, Ithaca College, New England College of Optometry, the University of Alabama, the University of Minnesota, the University of South Florida and the University of Tulsa School of Medicine.

The Department did not say which of the seven was investigated for accusations of segregation.

The memo of 14 February from the Republican government of Trump was a major expansion of a decision by the Supreme Court from 2023 that roasted colleges From the use of race as a factor in recordings.

That decision was aimed at the admission policy to Harvard and the University of North Carolina, but the educational department said it will interpret the decision to prohibit ras-based policy in any aspect of education, both in K-12 schools and in higher education.

In the memo, Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said that the diversity, fairness and inclusion of schools and colleges “racial stereotypes and explicit breed consciousness have been smuggled in daily training, programming and discipline.”

The memo is challenged in federal court cases of the two largest trade unions of the nation. The suits say that the memo is too vague and violates the freedom of expression of educators.

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