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Tennessee Seeks End of HSI Requirements

Tennessee filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education to end traditional requirements for Hispanic-serving institutions’ federal designation and grant funding. 

The plaintiffs seek “a declaratory judgment that the HSI program’s ethnicity-based requirements are unconstitutional” and “a permanent injunction prohibiting the [Education] Secretary from enforcing or applying the HSI program’s ethnicity-based requirements when making decisions whether to award or maintain grants to Tennessee’s institutions of higher education.”

Read more at Inside Higher Ed.