WASHINGTON – The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday it launched two more probes against Harvard University in its latest escalation against the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Ivy League school and other top U.S. universities.
The U.S. Education Department said its civil rights office “opened two new investigations into Harvard ?University amid allegations that it continues to discriminate against students on the basis of race, color, and ?national ?origin” in violation of federal law.
The latest probes will look into whether Harvard ?uses race-based preferences in admissions after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling that ended affirmative action in higher education, and into allegations of antisemitism on Harvard’s campus, the Education Department said in a statement.
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