The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation this morning into the University of Oregon and 44 other schools nationwide that partner with a graduate school nonprofit whose mission was to diversify the business world.
The Ph.D. Project’s goal was to help students from underrepresented groups get degrees in business. Amid a slew of attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion nationwide, the nonprofit appears to have changed its mission statement on its website to helping create “more role models in the front of business classrooms.”
But the DOE, under orders from President Donald Trump, is still opening investigations into schools nationwide that have partnered with the project, alleging the institutions violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act…