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University of Virginia has agreed to follow white House The guidance prohibiting discrimination in admissions and hiring has become the latest in a growing list of campuses dealing with trump The administration is trying to halt the months-long investigation by the US Justice Department.
The settlement was announced by the Justice Department, which began a review of the admissions and financial aid processes at the Charlottesville campus in April. Officials accused its president of failing to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices that President Donald Trump has denounced as unlawful.
increasing pressure induced james ryan Announcing his resignation as university president in June, he said he would be at “great risk to others on campus” if he chose to fight the federal government to save my job.
As described by the Justice Department, the university agreed to be bound by federal guidance prohibiting racial discrimination in admissions and hiring. It also agreed to provide relevant data on a quarterly basis until 2028. The President must personally certify that the University is in compliance each quarter.
The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Virginia’s agreement follows other agreements signed by Columbia and Brown universities to end the federal investigation and restore access to federal funding. Columbia paid $200 million to the government, and Brown paid $50 million to Rhode Island workforce development organizations.
Some of the Justice Department letters explicitly targeted Ryan and accused him of engaging in “efforts to disregard and evade federal anti-discrimination laws and your Board’s instructions.” Much of the federal investigation focused on complaints that Ryan was too slow to implement a March 7 resolution by the university’s governing board demanding the abolition of DEI on campus.
As a public university, the University of Virginia was an outlier in the Trump administration’s effort to reform higher education in line with the president’s vision. Previously, the administration had devoted most of its investigations to specific private colleges, including Harvard and other Ivy League institutions, that were accused of tolerating anti-Semitism.
Since then, the White House has expanded its campaign to other public campuses, including the University of California, Los Angeles George Mason University,
The Charlottesville campus became the subject of a controversy this year when conservative critics accused it of eliminating its DEI initiatives rather than simply renaming them. The Justice Department expanded the scope of its review several times and in May announced a separate investigation into alleged anti-Semitism.
Among the most prominent critics was America First Legal, a conservative group created by Trump ally Stephen Miller. In a letter to federal officials in May, the group said Virginia had moved forward only to “rename, repackage, and redeploy the same illegal infrastructure under a dictionary of euphemisms.”
Similar allegations have dogged George Mason University, where the governing board came to the president’s defense, even as the Education Department cited allegations that he promoted diversity initiatives over credentials in hiring. On August 1, the board voted unanimously to give President Gregory Washington a pay increase of 1.5%. The same day, the board approved a resolution banning DEI in favor of a “competency-based approach” in campus policies.
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