The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation Wednesday into two scholarships it says are exclusionary at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
The Dreamer’s Pathway Scholarship awarded aid to “students who are DACA or DACA eligible and Nebraska residents who are seeking an undergraduate degree,” and the HDR Scholarship gave preference to “underrepresented minority students,” according to an Education Department news release.
“Neither the Trump Administration’s America first policies nor the Civil Right Act of 1964’s prohibition on national origin discrimination permit universities to deny our fellow citizens the opportunity to compete for scholarships because they were born in the United States,” Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in the news release…