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