Last week, the U.S. Department of Education announced it would not distribute millions of dollars in grants for Minority-Serving Institutions, including more than $200 million in already-appropriated funding for Hispanic-Serving Institutions, or HSIs.
At least 25% of students at all of San Antonio’s major colleges and universities are Hispanic, making them eligible to apply for HSI grants. Several San Antonio colleges were awarded HSI grants in recent years and were expecting this year’s allocation as usual.
In a statement announcing the end of the grant funding, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said they were discriminatory because they were based on a race quota…