Trump puts pressure on universities to end DEI or lose federal subsidies

The decrees executed by President Trump during his first days in power send a thrill in colleges, universities and university medical centers in the country, because they seem to be part of a plan aimed at taking advantage of billions of dollars in the National Institutes of Health and other research subsidies – their budgetary blood – to put them pressure to dismantle programs and activities dealing with diversity, equity and inclusion and to bring the heel campuses that have been frank in Their commitment to these questions.

An order, published on January 21, states that Dei’s efforts are now illegal and discriminatory themselves, under the interpretation of the new administration of anti-discrimination federal laws. He also orders government agencies to install new requirements that all institutions receiving federal subsidies testify that they comply with this interpretation or risk losing funding or facing legal action.

Entitled “put an end to illegal discrimination and to restore the opportunities based on merit”, the order also asks each agency of the federal government to identify “up to nine potential surveys on civic compliance”, which could involve Companies, non -profit organizations and large foundations listed on the stock market, and universities whose endowments exceed $ 1 billion – a list of around 80 which includes the best Harvard, Yale and Stanford, but also Texas A & M The University of Virginia.