{"id":12525,"date":"2025-08-22T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/education-department-says-george-mason-violated-title-vi-with-unlawful-dei-policies\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:21:24","slug":"education-department-says-george-mason-violated-title-vi-with-unlawful-dei-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/education-department-says-george-mason-violated-title-vi-with-unlawful-dei-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Department says George Mason violated Title VI with &#8216;unlawful DEI policies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Education Department announced Friday that it found George Mason University in violation of Title VI due to &ldquo;unlawful DEI policies.&rdquo;  The department said George Mason University used race and other immutable characteristics in hiring and promotion practices at the institution. &ldquo;In 2020, University President Gregory Washington called for expunging the so-called &lsquo;racist vestiges&rsquo; from&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/education\/5465565-george-mason-university-dei-violation\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Education Department announced Friday that it found George Mason University in violation of Title VI due to &ldquo;unlawful DEI policies.&rdquo; The department said George Mason University used race and other immutable characteristics in hiring and promotion practices at the institution. &ldquo;In 2020, University President Gregory Washington called for expunging the so-called &lsquo;racist vestiges&rsquo; from&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}