The Ph.D. Project works with universities to increase the racial diversity of professors in business schools. Schools like Yale and Ohio State were named in the investigation.

We will respond to federal investigators in the course of the investigation.” In an accompanying media advisory, the university noted it transformed the way it engages with students and the community last year in response to a new Utah law ending diversity,

The department’s Office for Civil Rights on Friday announced it has begun investigating 45 universities for failing to follow their “civil rights obligations to end the use of racial preferences and stereotypes in education programs and activities.