By Randall

Hundreds of minority serving institutions will soon lose funding designated to assist underrepresented groups in community and four-year colleges, reports the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Education Department which the Trump administration is dismantling announced Wednesday that programs aimed at serving Asian American, Black and Hispanic students will be axed.

“Discrimination based upon race or ethnicity has no place in the United States. To further our commitment to ending discrimination in all forms across federally supported programs, the Department will no longer award Minority-Serving Institution grants that discriminate by restricting eligibility to institutions that meet government-mandated racial quotas,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a statement.

Approximately $350 million in funding will be reallocated to programs the Education Department determines do not discriminate or rely on ethnic quotas.

According to a list compiled by the College Recruiter in 2020, several hundred schools have been designated Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander- Serving Institutions with 38 receiving funding.

The list of those schools funded include CUNY Hunter College in New York, CUNY Queens College in Flushing, City College of San Francisco and Guam Community College.

A report conducted by the Postsecondary National Policy Institute released in 2023 found that AANAPISI schools received $10 million dollars in funding in fiscal year 2021.

To read the entire article: https://asamnews.com/2025/09/11/trump-admin-slashes-college-aid-racial-equity-grants-defunded/

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