Thread by @keikoinboston

1. This is remarkable. 14 days after Princeton's president Christopher Eisgruber posted a letter to their website about their "efforts to combat systemic racism", the US Dept of Education has opened an investigation into Princeton's self-admitted racism.

scribd.com/document/47644…

2. #Princeton President Eisgruber’s 9/2/20 letter.

princeton.edu/news/2020/09/0…
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DOE 9/16/20 letter via Washington Examiner:

washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/exclus…
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3. From DOE letter to Pres. Eisgruber:

“On September 2, 2020, you admitted Princeton’s education program is and for decades has been racist.”

They quoted from Eisgruber’s letter:

"Racist assumptions from the past also remain embedded in structures of the University itself."

4. DOE to Princeton:

“Based on its admitted racism, [the US DOE] is concerned Princeton’s nondiscrimination and equal opportunity assurances in its Program Participation Agreements from at least 2013 to the present may have been false. …

5.

… The Department is further concerned Prince perhaps knew, or should have known, these assurances were false at the time they were made. Finally, the Department is further concerned Princeton’s many nondiscrimination and equal opportunity claims to students, parents, and ...

6.

… consumers in the market for education certifications may have been false, misleading, and actionable substantial misrepresentations in violation of 20 U.S.C. § 1094(c)(3)(B) and 34 CFR 668.71(c).”

L: law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20…
R: law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/34/66…

7. Princeton has 21 days to produce:

- records relating to President Eisgruber’s letter

8.

- transcribed interviews with President Eisgruber & a “designated corporate representative with knowledge regarding the bases and accuracy of Princeton’s assurances” to the DOE regarding Title VI compliance

9.

- responses to these questions

10. This investigation will be conducted by the DOE’s "Office of the General Counsel with support from the Office of Postsecondary Education”.

11. They have also referred Princeton to the DOJ Civil Rights Division and to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights “for any additional action they deem appropriate.” 😬

12. Per Washington Examiner:

"Multiple people familiar with the matter … assert that this investigation is not political. Instead, they insist that the department has a legal obligation to investigate a supposedly self-admitted violation of federal civil rights protections."