The Department of Education’s civil rights office has opened investigations into five universities over scholarships alleged to exclude American-born students, in the latest move by the Trump administration to scrutinize higher education programs on grounds of civil rights and national security.
The probes, announced in a July 23 press release, target the University of Louisville, the University of Nebraska Omaha, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, and Western Michigan University, following complaints submitted to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) over scholarships that allegedly discriminate against U.S.-born individuals while favoring illegal immigrants.
“The investigations will determine whether these universities are granting scholarships only for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or ‘undocumented’ students,” the department said. Such actions would violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964’s Title VI “prohibition against national origin discrimination,” it said….