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Native Students Are Undercounted in Higher Education, but ED Could Help

A new report urges the Department of Education to implement standards that improve data collection for American Indian and Alaska Native students. The Trump administration may derail this work.

ADL, Other Pro-Israel Groups Condemn AAUP Webinar on Palestine

The Anti-Defamation League and four other pro-Israel groups accused the American Association of University Professors of “demonizing Israel” in its...
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Opinion

Anti-DEI Rhetoric Does Not Equal Legal Reality

The anti-DEI movement sounds like a row of cannons, but its legal attack is a rifle shot based on one provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Dan Currell writes.

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What Does the Education Department’s DEI Guidance Really Mean?

Over the weekend, the department dropped a new document expanding on the Office for Civil Rights’ anti-DEI directive. Legal scholars say it takes a more nuanced approach but express varying levels of hope about its outcomes.

ED Shares More Details About DEI Guidance

The Education Department offered more insight Friday into its sweeping guidance that essentially declared all race-based programming illegal, releasing a...
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As Colleges Face Funding Threat, Accreditors Offer Flexibility

Accreditors are relaxing enforcement of DEI standards as colleges grasp for answers on what unclear Trump administration directives targeting DEI mean.

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Wary Colleges Scramble to Meet DEI Deadline

The Education Department gave colleges two weeks to eliminate race-conscious programs. As the deadline approaches, questions remain about what compliance means and how far the Trump administration will go to enforce it.

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Opinion

A Lawless Attack on Diversity

Ray Li writes that the Feb. 14 Dear Colleague letter is not supported by established case law or sound legal reasoning.