Illinois Runs a Scholarship That Excludes White Applicants. It Could Get the State’s Top Universities Defunded.

The Illinois Board of Higher Education runs a scholarship program for graduate students that explicitly excludes white applicants, a move lawyers say is unconstitutional and could jeopardize the federal funding of more than two dozen participating universities, including Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.

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Anti-Israel Agitators Arrested in New York Amid Nationwide Walkouts Protesting Pro-Hamas Activist’s ICE Arrest

Several anti-Israel agitators were arrested in New York on Tuesday after clashing with police during a protest against the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student activist and foreign national whom the Trump administration moved to deport over his pro-Hamas campus organizing. It was part of a nationwide student and faculty walkout at several elite colleges across the nation.

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University Of Virginia Officially Canceled DEI, But Has A Long Road To Actually Eradicate It

The official move from the UVA board does not mean the ideology is not still deeply embedded in the administration, or that they will not see resistance from faculty.

Columbia Professors Cancel Classes in Solidarity With Pro-Hamas Activist in ICE Custody

Some Columbia University professors canceled in-person classes on Monday in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the student activist and foreign national whom the Trump administration moved to deport over his pro-Hamas campus organizing. The cancellations—which came amid a pressure campaign from the school's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter—put the professors at odds with Columbia's provost, who emailed "faculty colleagues" Monday morning to issue "a reminder that faculty must meet all scheduled classes."

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Yale Law School Scrubs References to Administrator Who Is Member of US-Sanctioned Terror Financier

Yale Law School's Law and Political Economy Project, an initiative funded by the left-wing William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, quietly deleted online references to its deputy director, Helyeh Doutaghi, who is also a member of the U.S.-sanctioned terrorist fundraising entity Samidoun.

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The American Sociological Association Is Attempting To Block Trump’s Civil Rights Guidance. It Runs a Fellowship That Discriminates Against White Applicants.

When the Department of Education published guidance last month targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs on college campuses, the American Sociological Association (ASA) sprang into action. With help from Democracy Forward, a nonprofit legal organization whose board is chaired by the disgraced Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias, the association sued to block the enforcement of the Education Department’s Dear Colleague letter, which argues that a wide range of DEI initiatives—not just overt racial preferences—violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

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Exclusive: Rutgers University Spent $10 Million On DEI Staff In One Year

Programs run by Rutgers are exactly the kind that the Trump administration has highlighted in its threat to defund left-wing schools.

Columbia Hires Trump’s Former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, To Teach Course on Diplomacy

Columbia University has enlisted former secretary of state Mike Pompeo to teach a course on public diplomacy. Pompeo will join Columbia’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP), housed within the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), as a Carnegie Distinguished Fellow for a one-year appointment, starting on March 1 and lasting through February 2026.

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When the Trump Administration Axed a Grant, This University Claimed It Only Did DEI To Appease the Biden Administration. The School’s Website Tells a Different Story.

On February 7, the Department of Education canceled a $6.8 million grant to the University of St. Thomas that had been used, in part, to support precisely the sorts of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that the Trump administration has put on the chopping block. The funds—ostensibly meant for teacher training programs focused on special education—had in fact gone toward a bevy of ideological initiatives at the St. Paul-based school, including a "cultural assessment test" that quizzed teachers on "white privilege" and made them pledge to be "brave equity warrior[s]," according to grant applications reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

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Notre Dame Undermines Catholic Mission In Pursuit of DEI

Notre Dame faculty conflated the goals of DEI with Catholic social teaching, doubling down on its diversity push in the days before Trump's inauguration.