CAUGHT: Colleges STILL Offering DEI Scholarships Despite Federal Warnings

Universities are still handing out scholarships based on race, gender, and identity.

And this comes after federal pushback.

These people are hellbent on pushing it.

A new report finds hundreds of awards for “POC” (read non-White) and “queer-identifying” students still in circulation.

The feds have said these preferences violate anti-discrimination laws.

Critics say schools are clinging to ideology, no matter what.

The Federalist reports:

Institutions of higher education across the country are still offering hundreds of scholarships tied to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology, despite the fact that the federal government has made it clear that race and gender preferences will no longer be tolerated.

A new report from Defending Education (DE), reviewed by The Federalist, shows numerous scholarships aimed at giving “queer identifying” students or those who “identify as POC [People of Color]” special treatment because of their race or incoherent claim about sexual identity.

“It’s hard to believe that so many colleges and universities decided that being on the right side of history meant discriminating based on race and sex when awarding scholarships to students,” Erika Sanzi, DE director of outreach, told The Federalist. “It’s even harder to believe that their lawyers let them do it since it is such an egregious violation of federal law.”

The report serves both as an archive of past DEI-related scholarships and those currently available, and it identifies 596 scholarships from 123 colleges or universities across 48 states.

As the Trump administration has been trying to get schools to stop their programs that are violative of civil rights, some institutions have attempted to hide, rebrand, or clandestinely continue their operation, while others have brazenly maintained theirs in the open to challenge the crackdown.

“While President Trump’s Executive Orders have incentivized universities to take down webpages and cease their DEI based scholarships and programs, this does not mean that these institutions are ending these practices permanently — or even ending them at all,” the report notes.

At the University of California, Berkeley, the Student Environmental Resource Center has two “sister scholarships” focused on environmental justice through either a lens of race or gender identity and sexual orientation.

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The $10,000 “Rooted in Joy” scholarship aims to “help bridge institutional gaps in support of environmentalists working at the intersection of communities of color and the environmental field.”

The school also has a $10,000 “SERQueer” scholarship, named after an alumni group described as “a community space for queer students working on environmental sustainability & justice.” The scholarship is meant to honor a deceased alumnus and his “commitment to building radically inclusive social and environmental justice spaces on the Berkeley campus.”

Another goal is to “financially support queer-identifying students and allies and/or students working at the intersection of LGBTQIA+ and the environment and are passionate about the environmental field at UC Berkeley.”

Those defending DEI have to ignore the hard data:

DEI is and has always been about accepting less qualified black and hispanic people and rejecting more qualified white and asian people based simply on race. Here data from Yale, Harvard, and the Association of American Medical Colleges showing just that. pic.twitter.com/EwMghLrqt5

— Helot 🚩 (@Helot_) March 28, 2024

Defending Education reported:

Number of states: 48

Number of colleges and universities: 127

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Number of identity-based or DEI focused scholarships: 609

SUMMARY
Throughout the country, universities commonly distribute scholarships to students based on immutable characteristics, commitment to social or racial justice, and/or adherence to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The purpose of this report is to expose these practices as well as provide an archive or snap shot in time.

While President Trump’s Executive Orders have incentivized universities to take down webpages and cease their DEI based scholarships and programs, this does not mean that these institutions are ending these practices permanently—or even ending them at all.

Therefore, we have decided to highlight the scholarships and DEI-based programs in higher education, both past and present. This report contains both current and archived university webpages that feature scholarships which state that eligibility is based on race or a “preferred” identity, LGBTQ+ status, or a commitment to advancing DEI, racial justice, or social justice.

Unfortunately, some universities only give accepted and current students access to scholarship offerings through an online portal such as “ScholarshipUniverse.” Additionally, programs and colleges have received grant funding from state and federal agencies earmarked specifically for identity or race-based scholarships or trainings. These universities are not included in this report at this time.

Below are a handful of examples from around the country, followed by a non-comprehensive list of universities and colleges by state, which include links to scholarships that currently, or in the recent past, were set aside for identity-based or DEI focused awards.

Also included in the list of schools are Office for Civil Rights Complaints filed by the Equal Protection Project against universities for allegedly giving out scholarships that violate civil rights protections.

These people love to stick us with the bill, too:

This is a $10,434,124 grant from HHS using your tax dollars to conduct a racist hiring practice where only DEI candidates get hired for 9 jobs to "systemically transform" the University of New Mexico and to make the @NIH workforce more diverse. They forced us to pay for racism. pic.twitter.com/boIkeMusSt

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 7, 2025

As for the “names” of the DEI departments, take note if they’ve been simply changed.

University of Michigan caught rebranding their DEI team to Community Culture to "outsmart" Trump's executive order.

Take away their funding. pic.twitter.com/6pgyKdIbqW

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 14, 2025

Though, I’m not sure why we’re still sending kids to these indoctrination camps.

Parents are paying to send their kids to be taught by our enemy and surprised when they return home looking ugly, inside and out:

🔥Parent Laments: Two years at University & they taught my beautiful daughter to HATE everything. 🔥

💥What parents do NOT understand is that the FAR LEFT Professors & Administrators want to BRAINWASH our children with WOKE HATE !
💥Almost all Professors & Admin are Woke. pic.twitter.com/yRrFEru0Pw

— 🏛 🌹PeriklestheGREAT 🌹 🏛 "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" (@PeriklesGREAT) April 17, 2025

Nothing short of a full take-over of the education system will stop this.