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Purdue University is ending its GEAR UP program after the Trump administration canceled a $34.9\u00a0million federal grant to support its activities, WFYI reported. The program provided college-prep programming for more than 13,000 low-income students in Indiana, according to a 2024 press release from Purdue\u2019s College of Education. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The grant, awarded last year, was expected to run through 2031. But the U.S. Department of Education told Purdue in a Sept.\u00a012 termination letter that the grant application flouted the department\u2019s policy of \u201cprioritizing merit, fairness, and excellence in education\u201d and ran afoul of civil rights law. The letter referenced parts of the application, including plans to provide DEI training to hiring managers and professional development in \u201cculturally responsive teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n
The program is \u201cinconsistent with, and no longer effectuates, the best interest of the Federal Government,\u201d the letter read. The GEAR UP program shut down on Tuesday. Purdue did not appeal the grant termination, WFYI reported.<\/p>\n
The Education Department has canceled at least nine GEAR UP grants, EducationWeek <\/em>reported, though it continued awards for other programs last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Purdue University is ending its GEAR UP program after the Trump administration canceled a $34.9\u00a0million federal grant to support its activities, WFYI reported. The program provided college-prep programming for more than 13,000 low-income students in Indiana, according to a 2024 press release from Purdue\u2019s College of Education. \u00a0 The grant, awarded last year, was expected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[304,747,319,4751,4639,536,15336],"class_list":{"0":"post-25370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-cut","9":"tag-ends","10":"tag-federal","11":"tag-gear","12":"tag-grant","13":"tag-program","14":"tag-purdue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}