The memo from the Department of Education mandates that colleges and universities eliminate "racial preferences" or face funding cuts.

Legal experts said an Education Department letter goes much further than the actual law in limiting how schools and colleges can consider race. Common practices that are part of diversity initiatives could be targeted.

Schools have been given an ultimatum by the Trump Administration: Get rid of programs that promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, also known as DEI, or risk losing federal funding. KRON4’s Rob Nesbitt reports.

The “dear colleague” letter, published Friday by the department’s Office for Civil Rights, goes far beyond telling colleges they can’t consider race as a factor in admissions. It says colleges that factor race into “admissions,