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UW-Madison under second investigation by Trump administration amid federal DEI crackdown

For the second time in a week, the federal education department placed the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a warning list.

The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it had opened an investigation into UW-Madison and 44 other universities nationwide over alleged racial discrimination. The notifications came exactly a month after the department issued sweeping guidance threatening to pull funding from colleges that do not eliminate all considerations of race from policies and programs.