The Department of Education has the ability, through the Office of Civil Rights to, through a process laid out in statute and in regulation, bring enforcement actions against universities that they don't believe are complying with the statute. But as we have all watched, This administration is cutting off funding for universities allegedly using the civil rights statute without going through any of the prescribed processes. that we have put in law and previous administrations have put into regulation. Most extraordinary is this April 11th letter that was sent to Harvard University telling them that they … (02:07–02:20)
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Asserts that the administration is cutting off university funding without following prescribed legal processes.
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