‘The Trump effect in action’: More than 30 schools cut ties with race-based program after crackdown

Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut

At least 31 universities are severing their partnerships with an organization that the Trump administration has accused of illegal racial discrimination in Ph.D. programs.

The Department of Education (ED) opened investigations into 45 universities in March 2025 over their partnership with ‘The Ph.D. Project,’ which ED said limits eligibility based on race. Now, Yale, New York University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University...