The U.S. Department of Education announced on Friday that it is investigating two Michigan universities for allegedly violating the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. The department’s Office of Civil Rights claims that the University of Michigan and Grand Valley State University offer programs or scholarships whose eligibility is based on students’ race.
But the department has not provided specifics. Germine Awad, a professor at the University of Michigan and chair of the Faculty Senate’s Committee on Anti-Racism, said the claims don’t add up.
“I think that this administration is grasping at straws,” she said…