School joins University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Brown in bowing to White House to restore funding<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The University of Virginia (UVA) has become the latest institution to agree to the Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s demands concerning discrimination in admissions and hiring following significant pressure from the justice department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The deal, which the department announced<\/a> on Wednesday, comes after the president of the esteemed public university resigned in June to resolve<\/a> a justice department investigation into UVA\u2019s diversity, equity and inclusion policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the president, Jim Ryan, had stayed in the job, he was told \u201chundreds of employees would lose jobs<\/a>, researchers would lose funding, and hundreds of students could lose financial aid or have their visas withheld\u201d, according to Mark Warner, a Democratic senator from Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The deal means the justice department will end its investigation into the school, while the school agreed \u201cnot engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring or other activities. UVA will provide relevant information and data to the Department of Justice on a quarterly basis through 2028,\u201d the announcement states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Brown had already reached agreements<\/a> with the Trump administration to have federal funding, which had been cut, restored in exchange for settlements concerning claims of alleged antisemitism. They also agreed to demands such as adopting the administration\u2019s definitions of male and female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump has said he also reached an agreement<\/a> with Harvard, but that does not appear to have been finalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The University of Virginia<\/a> is the first public school to reach such a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n