UVA’s DEI Program Under Federal Investigation

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the University of Virginia over its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) regime, which it has attempted to secretly continue despite a directive from its board to eradicate the ideology.

The Justice Department confirmed its investigation into the school to America First Legal (AFL), The Federalist learned, after the group sent a 98-page letter to Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, a UVA alumna, on Friday detailing how UVA is attempting to disguise its DEI infrastructure in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

The university’s Board of Visitors voted to dismantle DEI earlier this year, but actually executing that directive is left to the very people who injected the ideology into the school in the first place, as The Federalist reported.

“UVA has not dismantled its DEI framework — it has merely rebranded it to evade legal scrutiny. What the law prohibits, UVA simply renamed,” AFL counsel Megan Redshaw told The Federalist. “We are grateful the DOJ has taken our findings seriously and is taking action to hold UVA accountable. No institution that receives taxpayer funds is above the law.”

Source: Exclusive: DOJ Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into University Of Virginia’s DEI Regime