Author: Elizabeth Schmidt, Professor of Practice in Public Policy, Nonprofit Organizations, and Social & Environmental Enterprises, UMass Amherst

Why the Trump administration’s bid to end diversity efforts at nonprofit schools is likely to get tied up in court

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The Trump administration wants to strip all nonprofit colleges, universities and private K-12 schools of their tax-exempt status if any of their programs designed to help students uses race as a criterion for eligibility. This change is included in a rule the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service proposed on Sept. 3, 2026. The rule […]

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