The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has opened an investigation into Princeton University to determine whether racism is still much embedded in the Ivy League institution as its president recently suggested.
Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber made the assertion earlier this month, saying in an open letter that the negative effects of racism from the past “nevertheless persist” at the university, usually through “unexamined assumptions and stereotypes, ignorance or insensitivity, and the systemic legacy of past decisions and policies.”
