Philly elected officials slam Penn's removal of DEI websites

A group of state and local elected officials on Tuesday slammed the University of Pennsylvania for its response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on diversity initiatives in recent weeks, saying the state’s only Ivy League school is preemptively ceding ground to an administration intent on denigrating people of color and their contributions to higher education. The university has pulled down DEI websites at several colleges and plans to dissolve DEI committees at its medical school, amid threats from the U.S. Department of Education to pull federal funding from schools that use race as a factor in admissions, hiring, and other areas.