The educational department introduces the examination of the partnership with the diversity program from Yale

In the announcement, Yale's partnership with the doctoral project-one organization, which is intended to strengthen the variety of the Faculty of Business School-as a potential violation of the letter “Dear Colleague” from February 14.

Isobel McClure & Jerry Gao

10:45 p.m., March 16, 2025

Staff Reporter

Jerry Gao, contributing photographer

The office of the Ministry of Education for Civil Rights Opening examinations In Yale and 44 other universities due to alleged violations of title VI of the Civil Rights Act in their partnership with the PhD project, an organization that aims at it Support “historically underrepresented” Doctoral student.

The announcement follows A “dear colleague” letter published on February 14, which defined and threatened the interpretation of the Civil Rights Act by the Trump government Pull federal financing From universities to racial practices. In the letter, attitudes, approvals and “all other aspects of students, academic and on campus” cited as areas that are checked by the department.

In the recent announcement of the department, the allegations cited the participation that the partnerships of the institutions with the doctoral project “Limited authorization based on race” against title VI of the Civil Rights Act violated the discrimination against breed, color or national origin in federal government. Yale – In addition to Peer institutions Cornell, Duke and with – were among the listed institutions.

“The department is working on reorganizing the enforcement of civil rights to ensure that all students are protected against illegal discrimination.” Linda McMahon, the US Education Minister, said in the press release. “Today's announcement is expanding our efforts to ensure that the universities do not discriminate their students due to racial and racial stereotypes.”

The doctoral project Offers events, mentoring and networking resources for company promotions. According to his website, the initiative works with universities, companies and “strategic alliance” partners – organizations that can connect their members to the doctoral project to strengthen the variety of the Faculty of Business School.

In an email to the news, the doctoral project wrote that the organization opened its membership application for everyone.

“The PHD project was founded with the aim of providing more role models in front of the business classrooms, which is our goal to this day,” wrote the doctoral project.

It is unclear when Yale started his partnership with the PhD project. Accordingly an archived version The Som of the School of Management expanded its partnership with the organization in autumn 2020. Before the announcement of the Ministry of Education on Friday, the doctoral project offered one List of partner universities This included Yale, but the organization has removed the list since then.

A university spokesman wrote to the news that Yale “checked this matter”.

The new announcement follows a series of studies by the educational department on compliance with the Civil Rights Act. On February 6th the department Initiated studies In several alleged violations of title IX based on the participation of transgender athletes. Last Monday the educational department title IV started Studies In demands of anti -Semitism at 60 universities – including Yale – The campus protested in the last spring.

The Office for Civil Rights was Particularly affected By cuts by the Ministry of Education, it was announced on Tuesday what the department of the department halved. The office regularly has difficulty working on cases that result from the protests of the campus of last year. President Trump previously requested the department “Immediate” end.

The doctoral project was Founded in 1994.