US Dept. of Education investigating UNO over scholarships favoring DACA, minority students

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Justin Diep Jul 23, 2025 Updated 10 mins ago

The University of Nebraska at Omaha is the target of a U.S. Department of Education investigation into whether two of its scholarship programs unfairly favor minorities and students born outside the United States.

The Department of Education announced Wednesday that it opened an investigation into UNO and four other universities regarding scholarships for students under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an Obama-era program for children who were brought to the U.S. illegally.

The Education Department alleges that scholarships provided exclusively to DACA recipients violate civil rights law by discriminating based on national origin and taking resources away from American citizens.

“Neither the Trump Administration’s America First policies nor the Civil Rights Act of 1964's prohibition on national origin discrimination permit universities to deny our fellow citizens the opportunity to compete for scholarships because they were born in the United States,” Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in a press release.

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