Corruption Chronicles
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August 05, 2025
Myriad of Cut DEI NSF Grants Includes Millions for AI Racial Equity, to Engage Poor Latinx in STEM
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The Trump administration is saving American taxpayers a substantial amount of money by terminating hundreds of “science” grants that fund all sorts of preposterous Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives at dozens of universities and a few nonprofits throughout the United States. The cash is disbursed by the National Science Foundation (NSF), established by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science, advance national health, prosperity, and welfare and to secure national defense. Instead, under the Biden administration the agency went on a remarkable DEI spending frenzy that has supported a multitude of exclusionary leftist projects at private and public academic institutions nationwide as well as organizations that claim to advance minority causes.
One of the country’s largest public universities alone has lost tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants identified by the Trump administration as supporting blatant DEI projects that are unlikely to further the agency’s mission. With an undergraduate enrollment of 142,000, Arizona State University (ASU) has received around $28.5 million from the NSF for over two dozen DEI initiatives recently placed on the chopping block. Among them is a $2.4 million project called Black Girls as Creators described as an intersectional learning ecosystem toward gendered racial equity in artificial intelligence education to help black girls focus on intersectionality and racial equity. An “institutional transformational” project that aims to reshape faculty policies for gender equity and intersectionality received nearly $3 million. A program that positioned engineering faculty to support black students through awareness, knowledge, capacity building and community got $733,633 and over half a million dollars went to a community transformation experiment that claims to increase justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in academic standards.
Public universities on opposite sides of the country are losing a total of $2 million for identical projects titled “Challenging Anti-Black-Racism in Civil and Environmental Engineering Curriculum” that claim to serve the national public interest by establishing education practices that acknowledge low-income communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air and water pollution. The University of South Florida in Tampa received $1.5 million for the environmental justice initiative and the University of California Berkeley $500,000. UC Berkeley also lost a $1.6 million allocation from the NSF to help center scientific and environmental literacy around the voices of communities of color since, according to the grant document, the entire field is “aligned with dominant views that can marginalize, exclude, and erase the knowledge and expertise of communities of color.” The renowned northern California university asserts that its study will “contribute new understandings of how race and culture influence learning, as well as how racism and biases have shaped research to date.”
https://www.judicialwatch.org/myriad-of-cut-dei-nsf-grants/
