People cross Central Avenue, which borders the University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque campus, on Aug. 27. (Photo by Bella Davis / New Mexico In Depth)
The University of New Mexico said it would cooperate with the federal investigation into alleged “race-exclusionary practices” announced earlier this month, and is working to put together a response about the university’s relationship with a nonprofit aiming to increase minority participation in PhD programs and faculty positions.
On March 14, the U.S. Department of Education issued a new release informing 45 universities that the Office for Civil Rights had received a complaint that they were allegedly discriminating against graduate students based on race or ethnicity for their past affiliations with the PhD Project…