Aaron Sibarium

The Illinois Board of Higher Education runs a scholarship program for graduate students that explicitly excludes white applicants, a move lawyers say is unconstitutional and could jeopardize the federal funding of more than two dozen participating universities, including Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.

As President Donald Trump unleashed a suite of executive orders targeting DEI, the University of Michigan School of Nursing began quietly revamping its website. A "diversity" tab with links to DEI resources was removed from the homepage. Pages with "DEI" in the title were renamed and purged of the offending adjective, according to web archives reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, while the main page for the school’s diversity office—which stated, "We are not excellent if we do not reflect diversity, equity and inclusion in all aspects of our community"—was taken down entirely.

The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) was slapped with a lawsuit on Monday over a slew of race-based hiring programs that discriminate against white scholars, the latest sign that faculty hiring could become a target for litigants seeking to challenge racial preferences under the Trump administration.

The Department of Education on Friday canceled $15 million in federal grants that were used to fund diversity programs at three universities, according to information provided by a department official, the latest move in the Trump administration's efforts to defund DEI.

In January 2020, the top law enforcement agency in the state of Oregon launched a "Bias Response Hotline" for residents to report "offensive ‘jokes.’" Staffed by "trauma-informed operators" and overseen by the Oregon Department of Justice, the hotline, which receives thousands of calls a year, doesn’t just solicit reports of hate crimes and hiring discrimination. It also asks for reports of "bias incidents"—cases of "non-criminal" expression that are motivated, "in part," by prejudice or hate. Oregonians are encouraged to report their fellow citizens for things like "creating racist images," "mocking someone with a disability," and "sharing offensive ‘jokes’ about someone’s identity."

On June 11, 2020, PayPal launched a $530 million program to invest in “minority-focused investment funds” and “address economic inequality.” One of the first people to inquire about the program was Nisha Desai, the CEO of Andav Capital.

The Washington Free Beacon spoke to Edward Blum about his recent court victory and his time in Israel. During the interview, Blum discussed the significance of the NASDAQ ruling, the next stage of the fight against racial preferences, the mood in Israel after Donald Trump's election, and the joys of Israeli farmwork.

Amy Wax, the tenured law professor who was disciplined by the University of Pennsylvania for making controversial remarks about race and gender, told Penn on Thursday that she will sue the university for race discrimination if it does not drop the sanctions against her, according to a letter from Wax's lawyers obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. It's the latest salvo in a nearly three-year-long battle between Wax and the Ivy League school, which announced in September that it was suspending her at half-pay for one year.

The top neuropsychology organizations in North America may soon adopt training guidelines that call on clinicians to use "social justice frameworks," acknowledge "systemic oppression," and pursue "equitable and just scientific knowledge," according to a copy of the guidelines reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Yale students have overwhelmingly passed a referendum calling on the university to divest from weapons manufacturers arming Israel. While the school has said it will not do so, the results reveal widespread support for divestment at one of the top universities in the world.