On the first day of his second term, Donald Trump issued an executive order directing all federal agencies to terminate “equity-related” grants. Institutions of higher education will now suffer the fallout.
The Department of Education on Friday scrapped $15 million in federal grants for diversity programs at California State University, Los Angeles, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, reports the Free Beacon‘s Aaron Sibarium. Their education schools received taxpayer funding ostensibly meant for teacher training and development. It was used “to support courses and workshops that drilled students on DEI concepts, including ‘white privilege,’ ‘systemic racism,’ and ‘linguistic supremacy,'” Sibarium writes.
At the University of St. Thomas, one course graded students on the results of a “racial autobiography” test. At Virginia Commonwealth University, the education school hosted workshops…
