Feds start new studies on UsF registrations and scholarships

The US Ministry of Education opened new investigations into 52 universities and universities, including the University of South Florida, on Friday due to the breed.

“The department is working on reorganizing the enforcement of civil rights to ensure that all students are protected against illegal discrimination,” said US Education Minister Linda McMahon in a 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.”

USF is one of the six universities that are examined for alleged inadmissible, racial -based scholarships. The letter does not indicate which USF scholarships should violate anti -discrimination laws, and the letter also did not state which racial groups had been discriminated against.

USF received the department of the department on Thursday and referred to a complaint against the McKnight Doctoral Scholarship, said spokesman Althea Johnson.

The scholarship founded in 1984 “should treat the underrepresentation of the African -American and Hispanic faculty at universities and universities in the state of Florida,” says the program of the program.

The scholarship program is offered at nine Colleges and universities in Florida, including at the University of Florida and Florida State University, and was admitted under state law, Johnson added.

The department claims that the scholarship provides the law on the federal government's law only for full-time doctoral students “who are African Americans or Hispanic”.

The letter calls for data on the McKnight program, including advertising materials and the number of scholarship participants classified by breed and national origin.

Another 45 schools should violate title IV by with “The Ph.D. Project ”, an organization that pretends to get doctoral students an insight into obtaining a Ph.D. And Networking opportunities, but limits the authorization based on the racing of the participants. A school supposedly operated a program that the students separated according to breed.

The campaign on Friday was the second time this week that the Title IV rules department called, which prohibits discrimination due to breed, ethnicity or national origin. On Monday it accused 60 universities of discrimination against Jewish students. USF and the University of Tampa were among the mentioned.

The Trump Administration has examined more than half of the Trump administration's workforce of the department for civil rights of the department, according to an analysis by Washington Post, by more than half.

Ian Hodgson is an educational reporter of the Tampa Bay Times and works in collaboration with Open Campus.