The Trump administration has frozen $108 million in federal funding for North Carolina’s Duke University, days after it opened a civil rights investigation into the school.
The investigation, announced Monday, centers on allegations that Duke’s law school made hiring and acceptance decisions on the basis of race and color. It also accuses the university of using race preferences in hiring, admissions and scholarship decisions.
The Department of Education argued that the discriminatory practices, if true, would violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It would also violate the Supreme Court’s ruling banning affirmative action, which previously allowed colleges and universities to use race as one of the many factors it considered when accepting or rejecting qualified students.
The National Institutes of Health is responsible for freezing the funds, which will impact the Duke University School of Medicine, a senior administration official told The Hill.
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