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Princeton Prez: We Must Cleanse Our University Of Racism. DeVos: You’re Racist? We’ll Investigate You Now.

Hank Berrien
Princeton Prez: We Must Cleanse Our University Of Racism. DeVos: You’re Racist? We’ll Investigate You Now.
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On September 2, the president of Princeton University, Christopher Eisgruber, issued a mea culpa in a letter in which he argued that Princeton still evinced racism, writing, “Racism and the damage it does to people of color nevertheless persist at Princeton as in our society … racist assumptions from the past also remain embedded in structures of the University itself.”

On Wednesday, the Department of Education fired off a letter to Princeton University declaring that the university would be investigated, stating it was “concerned Princeton’s nondiscrimination and equal opportunity assurances in its Program Participation Agreements from at least 2013 to the present may have been false.”

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