So far, President Trump’s actions on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” have seen federal DEI offices shuttered and DEI officials placed on mandatory leave. But that isn’t the end of the story. Greater enforcement of civil rights law is coming, and American colleges and universities should be worried.
In President Trump’s first anti-DEI Executive Order, he sought to eliminate all DEI (both legal and illegal) across the federal government – a broad stroke that extends to all agencies’ “‘equity-related’ grants or contracts.”
This directive includes many grants that directly or indirectly reach colleges – and it has already had some effect.
According to Arizona State University’s provost, several agencies have told grantees to “cease and desist all DEIA activities required of their contracts or grants.” Already, Rutgers University has canceled an…
