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Department of Education to investigate University following Eisgruber’s letter on racism
"In an open letter outlining the University’s efforts to combat racism early this month, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 wrote, “Racism and the damage it does to people of color nevertheless persist at Princeton” and racist assumptions “remain embedded in structures of the University itself.”
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE), which considers those statements to have “admitted racism,” has launched an investigation into whether the University has discriminated on the basis of race since Eisgruber took office in 2013."
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits federal funding to any institution that practices racial discrimination, so it appears that Princeton, in Eisgruber's letter, has confessed to violating the law. Princeton has also confessed to lying to the Department of Education when it promised, as a precondition of receiving federal funds, not to practice racial discrimination.
Anyone who truly cares about addressing systemic racism should welcome this move by DeVos.
"In an open letter outlining the University’s efforts to combat racism early this month, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 wrote, “Racism and the damage it does to people of color nevertheless persist at Princeton” and racist assumptions “remain embedded in structures of the University itself.”
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE), which considers those statements to have “admitted racism,” has launched an investigation into whether the University has discriminated on the basis of race since Eisgruber took office in 2013."
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits federal funding to any institution that practices racial discrimination, so it appears that Princeton, in Eisgruber's letter, has confessed to violating the law. Princeton has also confessed to lying to the Department of Education when it promised, as a precondition of receiving federal funds, not to practice racial discrimination.
Anyone who truly cares about addressing systemic racism should welcome this move by DeVos.