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“We cannot, and must not, attach race-based conditions when allocating taxpayer funding,” says U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “This is another concrete step from the Trump Administration to put a stop to DEI in government and ensure taxpayer dollars support programs that advance merit and fairness in all aspects of Americans lives.”

The Trump Administration is redirecting some $350 million initially allocated for Minority-Serving Institutions to be included in a $500 million, one-time investment in historically Black colleges and universities and tribal colleges. HBCUs are slated to receive $435 million of these funds.

Some $350 million in grant funding initially allocated for Minority-Serving Institutions – including Predominately Black Institutions – will be redirected to other programs “that do not include discriminatory racial and ethnic quotas,” according to the U.S. Department of Education. Notably, these cuts do not affect federal grant programs allocated for historically Black colleges and universities.

According to the Department of Education, “these new requirements will enable the American public to assess whether schools are passing over the most qualified students in favor of others based on their race.”

The investigation was implemented following a complaint filed by an alumna of the university after an incident on campus in November where a multicultural dormitory was vandalized with eggs and racist graffiti.

The U.S. Department of Education reports that in the fall of 2012 there were 2,864,723 African Americans enrolled in degree-granting institutions in the United States, down more than 3 percent from a year earlier.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education issued a new guidance letter that stated colleges and universities may continue to use race as one factor in their admissions processes.

More than 67 percent of all African Americans earning bachelor's degree in the 2007-08 academic year were women. More than 29 percent of African Americans were over the age of 30 when they earned their degree.