The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to exploit civil rights laws to target diversity and equity initiatives on US campuses by characterizing them as discriminatory.
These efforts escalated this week when the Department of Education escalated its attack against Harvard University, announcing an investigation of the law school over what it claims are discriminatory practices at the school’s student-run journal, the Harvard Law Review. The investigation is one of dozens the administration has launched on the basis of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits federally funded programs from discriminating on the basis of race, color and national origin.
