Students walk past graffiti near Stanford University President Richard Saller's office in Palo Alto, Calif., June 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
60 UNIVERSITIES UNDER INVESTIGATION BY TRUMP ADMIN FOR 'ANTISEMITIC DISCRIMINATION AND HARASSMENT'
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is demanding compliance.
"President [Donald] Trump and I are dedicated to ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity across the country," Bondi said. "Every student in America deserves to be judged solely based on their hard work, intellect and character, not the color of their skin."
For decades, elite colleges and universities "prioritized racial quotas over equality of opportunity," according to a news release from the DOJ's public affairs office.
Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., Sept. 14, 2023. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The prior administration "advanced the ideology behind this illegal practice and did nothing to protect the civil rights of American students," the DOJ wrote in the release.
"The Department of Justice will put an end to a shameful system in which someone’s race matters more than their ability," said acting Associate Attorney General Chad Mizelle. "Every college and university should know that illegal discrimination in admissions will be investigated and eliminated."
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The compliance investigations into these universities "are just the beginning of the department’s work in eradicating illegal DEI and protecting equality under the law," according to the DOJ.
Fox News Digital's Jeffrey Clark and Charles Creitz contributed to this report.
Alexandra Koch is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Prior to joining Fox News, Alexandra covered breaking news, crime, religion, and the military in the southeast.
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