Virginia Commonwealth University is one of three universities to have a federal grant canceled in the latest step by the Trump administration to defund Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

The education schools of VCU, California State University-Los Angeles and the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota had received a series of grants under a larger $1 billion Biden administration initiative. Reports The Washington Free Beacon:

Ostensibly meant for teacher training and development, the grants were in fact used to support courses and workshops on DEI concepts—including “white privilege,” “systemic racism,” and “linguistic supremacy”—as well as the establishment of a “social justice” center.

The VCU education school, which has explicitly included “social justice” in its mission statement, hosted workshops on “decolonizing the curriculum” and “becoming an antiracist educator.”

Additionally, last month VCU was one of 11 universities identified by Do No Harm affected by a President Trump executive order halting taxpayer funding of child sex change procedures through federal grants and health benefit programs. Additionally, VCU and the University of Virginia were ordered by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares to stop giving puberty blockers, hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgery to patients younger than 19.

–JAB