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Colleges cut ties with The PhD Project, a nonprofit targeted by Trump administration over DEI
The U.S. Education Department last week said it was investigating dozens of universities for alleged racial discrimination, ...
Nonprofit targeted by the Trump administration over DEI has ties to Carnegie Mellon
Until recently, it was a little-known program to help Black and Latino students pursue business degrees. But in January, conservative strategist Christopher Rufo flagged the program known as The PhD ...
University of Kentucky cuts ties to nonprofit amid civil rights investigation
The University of Kentucky said it is complying with the U.S. Department of Education's civil rights investigation.
USF faces investigation over race-based scholarship. UCF, 7 other schools offer it, too
The McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, the scholarship now facing scrutiny, aims to help Black and Hispanic graduate students earn ...
45 top US universities face federal probes over ties to controversial nonprofit amid DEI crackdown
Forty-five major US universities are under federal investigation for their past affiliations with The PhD Project, a ...
Trump targets Rutgers over NJ nonprofit that promotes diversity of doctoral students
Rutgers University is one of 45 universities under investigation by the Trump administration over allegations that it violated student civil rights because of its connection to The PhD Project, a ...
Education Dept. probes 45 universities for Title VI violations tied to PhD project
This week, The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened a Title VI investigation into 45 universities. The Department of Education alleges that the institutions violated ...