From Inside Higher Ed: The U.S. Department of Education plans to end discretionary grant programs for a slew of minority-serving institutions, officials announced... after Congress had already appropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars to those programs. The move stunned MSI advocates, who argue the department doesn’t have the authority to nix them. The Education Department asserted that these programs amount to “discrimination” and are “unconstitutional” because they require colleges to enroll a certain percentage of students from a particular racial or ethnic background to qualify. For example, HSIs must enroll at least a quarter Hispanic students, among other requirements, to earn the federal designation.
“Discrimination based upon race or ethnicity has no place in the United States,” U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in the announcement. “To further our commitment to ending discrimination in all forms across federally supported programs, the Department will no longer award Minority-Serving Institution grants that discriminate by restricting eligibility to institutions that meet government-mandated racial quotas.”
Seven grant programs are on the chopping block, including funds for Hispanic-serving institutions, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian–serving institutions, predominantly Black institutions, Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander–serving institutions and Native American–serving nontribal institutions. Historically Black colleges and universities and tribal colleges are unaffected...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/09/11/education-department-moves-end-msi-programs.
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