The US Ministry of Education starts civil rights examinations at the University of Oregon, other universities

The University of Oregon is one of the 45 universities across the country who examine federal education officers because they are supposed to violate their students' civil rights.

On Friday morning, the office for civil rights of the US Ministry of Education announced that it opened the investigation that examines the partnership of the universities with a non -profit organization that focuses on increasing a diverse workforce.

UO is the sole university that was targeted in Oregon.

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The non -profit organization in question is the PhD project, an organization founded more than 30 years ago. It supports students from underrepresented communities in obtaining doctoral students. Many of the students who participate in the organization projects are university professors and managing directors.

The Federal Government claims that the non -profit organization and the universities who have registered as members have limited a limited access of the students to their programming based on the breed.

In a press release, the educational department said that the restriction of educational opportunities based on the breed, color or national origin is a violation of title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The department says that if the universities do not adhere to the law, federal financing could be withdrawn.

A spokesman for UO said the university was serious about this complaint.

“We recently checked all of our practices and believe that the University of Oregon corresponds to the law,” said the UO spokesman in an e -mail declaration. “We have further checked the guidelines and practices in view of the executive commands of the administration and look forward to working with the Office for Civil Rights in order to solve this complaint.”

The department also announced a separate examination in which six universities were involved on Friday and claimed that they had awarded grants and separate students on the basis of breeds. UO is not a goal of this investigation.

These are only the latest investigations by Title VI, which are steering at the universities of the educational department, since President Donald Trump took up his office in January. His first office actions included the signing of instructions that deal against the efforts of diversity, justice and inclusion, exclude transgender athletes from women's sports and to expose anti -Semitism to both public and private university facilities in the USA.

Last month, the office of the Education Department for Civil Rights announced that this was the case Examination of Portland State University to allow anti -Semitic behavior on campus for supposedly.

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The educational department said that the investigation on Friday is a reaction to the “Dear colleague letter” Sent on February 14 by his office for civil rights, in which the university institutions were “neither separated or separate students on the basis of breeds or distributed on the basis of the breed”.

The letter gave the universities and universities a two -week window to enable or lose compliance with federal financing. The campaign on Friday seems to be the first answer of the educational department since this period passed on February 28th. At the end of the last month, the department sent additional explanatory guidelines that were triggered on the interpretation of civil rights by the Trump administration in educational settings.

Title VI examinations usually last months and sometimes more than a year to complete. In the past, the investigation often led to an agreed plan between the Federal Government and the University in order to correspond to civil rights law.

An investigation of Title VI has never led to the fact that federal funds have been removed from an institution.

It is unclear how the Reasons by the educational department on almost half of your staff This week could affect the approach, the timeline and the results of these examinations.