DOJ Investigates CUNY Program at 24 Campuses for Title VI Bias
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 10
DOJ Investigates CUNY Program at 24 Campuses for Title VI Bias
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 10
Summary
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division opened a Title VI investigation into CUNY’s Black Male Initiative, saying it will examine whether the program unlawfully steers educational benefits by race.
CUNY says the 21-year-old initiative supports severely underrepresented students, particularly African, Black, Caribbean and Latino/Hispanic males, across 24 campuses in New York.
The probe follows a complaint last month from the Equal Protection Project, which argued White students are often minorities at CUNY and called the program race-based discrimination.
DOJ said it has not reached conclusions yet, but the case adds to a broader Trump administration push targeting university diversity and minority-focused programs under civil-rights law.