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Education Funding Hinges on Compliance as DOJ Forces University President’s Resignation

The Department of Justice required James Ryan’s resignation in exchange for grant funding to enforce Trump’s diversity and discrimination mandates

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Overview

  • University of Virginia president James Ryan stepped down under a DOJ ultimatum, marking the first use of federal grants to compel a university leader’s resignation over DEI compliance
  • UVA dissolved its DEI office in March but federal authorities said those steps fell short of fully implementing the administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs
  • Harvard University is under a federal civil rights investigation for alleged failures to address antisemitic harassment of Jewish students
  • The administration released $175 million to the University of Pennsylvania after it agreed to bar transgender women athletes from female teams and delete Lia Thomas’s records
  • The Trump administration is withholding $6.8 billion in K–12 funding and pursuing the dismantling of the Department of Education as part of its broader ideological enforcement campaign