University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

Source: NYT

Michael S. Schmidt, an investigative reporter, and Michael C. Bender, who writes about education, have been covering the Trump administration’s clash with Harvard University and other schools for months.

The University of Virginia’s president, James E. Ryan, has told the board overseeing the school that he will resign in the face of demands by the Trump administration that he step aside in order to help resolve a Justice Department inquiry into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, according to three people briefed on the matter.

For the leader of a major public university to take such an extraordinary step demonstrates President Trump’s success in harnessing the investigative powers of the federal government to accomplish his administration’s policy goals.

The New York Times reported on Thursday evening that the Justice Department had demanded Mr. Ryan’s resignation as a condition to settle a civil rights investigation into the school’s diversity practices.The

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This is nuts.

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Trump won again

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