For decades, universities across the country, where leftists enjoy intellectual monopoly, have been violating the civil rights of students.
They’ve done this through “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” programs, which require racial and sexual discrimination against whatever group at the time academics deem the “oppressors” or “privileged.”
This illegal behavior came to a head over the past two years when pro-terrorism mobs took over a number of Ivy League institutions, regularly threatening Jewish students, blocking them from their classes, and holding them hostage inside libraries and mess halls.
Unlike previous administrations, President Donald Trump and his administration aren’t allowing these egregious civil rights violations to continue. They are finally forcing schools with big endowments to pay up for their violations.
"The Trump administration has won unprecedented concessions from Columbia University in a sweeping settlement — with the Ivy League university paying more than $220 million and pledging to reverse racially discriminatory practices and resolve civil rights violations against Jewish students," the New York Post reports."The settlement, under which Columbia will agree to submit to independent monitoring to ensure it is complying with merit-based hiring and admissions requirements, is likely to put pressure on other schools — like Harvard — that have crossed the White House over tolerance of extreme Jew-hatred on campus since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas against Israel."
Harvard is also under the microscope and fighting the Trump administration in court over similar violations. The university's high-paid, fancy attorneys thought they would make it out without a penalty, but they’re likely to fork over $500 million – more than double that of the Columbia allies.
Duke and UCLA are also getting nailed, with the Department of Human Services, Department of Education, and Department of Justice announcing new investigations into both institutions this week.
"Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) initiated a directed investigation into Duke University and the Duke Law Journal for allegedly violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI). This investigation is based on recent reporting alleging that Duke University (Duke) discriminates on the bases of race, color, and/or national origin by using these factors to select law journal members," the Department of Education announced Monday, adding the medical school is being investigated for using race rather than merit for admission into the medical school.
“Our investigation into the University of California system has found concerning evidence of systemic anti-Semitism at UCLA that demands severe accountability from the institution,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi released in a statement. “This disgusting breach of civil rights against students will not stand: DOJ will force UCLA to pay a heavy price for putting Jewish Americans at risk and continue our ongoing investigations into other campuses in the UC system.”
The mission of the Trump administration was made crystal clear during recent testimony on Capitol Hill.
“When I hear the words or the slogan ‘DEI,’ what I hear is discrimination, exclusion, and intolerance—and that is what we are seeing throughout all of these programs nationally,” DOJ Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Either DEI will end on its own, or we will kill it.”
While many institutions are doing their best to rename departments and hide their illegal DEI practices, no doubt to wait out the Trump administration and adhere to their leftist ideology (one practiced like a religion), academic administrators and professors are at least being held accountable by being forced to pay a heavy price. This is long overdue. Nobody is above the law for civil rights violations; not even tenure can shield them now.