Get the Facts: What is The PhD Project, a target of Trump's DEI crackdown?
President Donald Trump’s administration announced last week that it will investigate 45 U.S. universities, including Yale and Ohio State, over their partnership with The PhD Project.
MIT, New England Optometry accused by feds of civil rights violations
MIT is among three New England colleges under investigation by the federal education department for alleged civil rights ...
CT and the overhaul of the federal education department. What you should know
Connecticut does not get as much federal funding as some others, but towns and cities with higher concentrations of ...
Will CT have to pick up the pieces of U.S. Dept. of Ed. ‘overhaul’?
States are bracing for cuts to services from early childhood education to college. CT hasn't seen any disruptions, but the ...
Trump opens investigations at three California colleges alleging DEI-based discrimination
Amid President Trump's push against DEI, the Education Department has opened investigations into a diversity-related program ...
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BU under investigation by US Education Department for antisemitic discrimination
Boston University is one of 60 universities under investigation by the United States Department of Education for Title VI ...
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‘I Want to Stand Up for Higher Ed’: Protesters Rally Against Education Dept. Cuts
As demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., researchers met across town to discuss the toll that drastic reductions at the agency would have on their work.
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Financial aid, civil rights protections in limbo following Education Department workforce cuts
The Department of Education announced March 11 that it plans to cut nearly half of its employees, a move that will likely ...
Maine sues President Trump over mass layoffs at the Department of Education
BOSTON, MA (WABI) - Maine has signed onto a new multi-state lawsuit that alleges that the Trump administration’s mass layoffs ...
North Texas, Rice among over 50 universities facing federal DEI investigations
Department officials said that the group limits eligibility based on race and that colleges that partner with it are ...
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Transitions: New President at West Virginia U.
CHIEF EXECUTIVES Appointments Michael T. Benson, president of Coastal Carolina University, has been named president of West ...
Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
The lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of ...