Letter: We’ll Defund Colleges With “Race” Programs

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports:

Late Friday night, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) put colleges on notice: stamp out all race-conscious policies and programming immediately or risk losing federal funding.

In a Dear Colleague letter, Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights, wrote that “institutions’ embrace of pervasive and repugnant race-based preferences and other forms of racial discrimination have emanated throughout every facet of academia.”

PEN America, a nonprofit group that supports free speech, described the letter as “yet another twisting of civil rights law in an effort to demand ideological conformity by schools and universities and to do away with critical inquiry about race and identity.”

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— The Chronicle of Higher Education (@chronicle) February 17, 2025