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Nearly 40 universities across the nation this year continue to offer neo-segregated dorms and housing opportunities despite a recent demand from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to end race-based discriminatory residential programs.

Research by The College Fix found 39 universities this fall semester operate “affinity housing” or “living-learning communities” geared toward students of a particular race or ethnicity.

Proponents argue such arrangements improve retention rates, foster peer mentorship, and support academic integration for historically underrepresented groups. However, these offerings have been deemed a euphemism for discrimination by the Trump administration. Another term used to describe such arrangements is “neo-segregation.”

Fix research identified 39 universities with one or more such residential programs, but because many universities operate multiple communities, the total number of individual segregated housing programs is substantially higher, coming in at 74.

Of the 39 universities, at least 28 offer housing geared toward black or African students, 17 toward Hispanic or Latino students, 10 toward Native American or Indigenous students, and nine toward Asian students. Several universities offer multiple affinity housing programs.

“I am not surprised that neo-segregated housing persists in American colleges and universities,” said Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, in an email interview with The College Fix.

California has seen a mass exodus of companies from their state in recent years due to ridiculously high taxes, burdensome regulations, and the draconian lock down policies of Gavin Newsom during Covid-19.

Are they trying to fix any of this in order to retain the businesses that haven’t fled? Nope. In fact, they are about to make things even worse.

California is now planning to force companies to disclose any historic ties to slavery. Is Governor Newsom aware that California never even had slavery?

California set to force big companies to disclose historic links to slavery https://t.co/mMJcYU4zzn pic.twitter.com/zYJhHndOPv

— California Post (@californiapost) August 30, 2026

From the New York Post:

The bill is facing pushback from insurance companies, which argue it largely repeats an earlier California law requiring insurers to disclose past policies issued to slaveholders that covered the death or injury of enslaved people.

New York Life Insurance Company, Aetna Life Insurance Company and American International Group, known as AIG, were among the companies that disclosed ties to enslaved people and slaveholders.

Some reparations advocates have viewed the measure as a significant step forward, while others have questioned how much of an impact it would actually have.

The bill, known as Assembly Bill 2599, would require companies with more than $100 million in annual worldwide sales to search their records for evidence that they, their predecessors or subsidiaries bought or sold enslaved people or provided financial support for those transactions, including through insurance or loans.

The measure would only take effect if the Legislature sets aside funding for it, a requirement added through late amendments.

Once funding is allocated, the California Civil Rights Department would be required to create a digital platform for the disclosures.

Black students do not feel welcome at “Hispanic-serving institutions,” according to a new study.

However, higher education in general has a racist history, according to the University of New Mexico scholars who wrote the study.

“Conceptualizing Anti-Blackness at a Hispanic-Serving Institution,” includes interviews with black students who attend one of these colleges.

“To qualify as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), an institution must be an accredited degree-granting college or university with enrollment of at least 25% full-time equivalent undergraduates who self-identify as Hispanic,” the study explains.

The authors include Brandi Wells-Stone, who directs “African-American Student Services” at the University of New Mexico. Her employer is a Hispanic-serving institution.

Progressives seem intent on setting back the Civil Rights Movement.

Breitbart News reports:

Exclusive: Illinois STEM School Helped Organize, Fund Black Graduation with Nearly $2K of School Money

The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy’s (IMSA) diversity office helped organize a graduation ceremony for black students, which included $640 in custom sashes and up to $1,200 for a graduation lunch, according to emails obtained by Defending Education through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The event was separate from IMSA’s general commencement ceremony and was for black seniors only, although the promotional flyer indicated that guests could attend.

The records show planning for the black graduation was underway by January 29, 2026, when an organizer asked IMSA’s director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Title IX coordinator to provide an approximate number of black students so that graduation stoles could be ordered.

“For the Black Graduation, we’re thinking of the last Wednesday in May again, if possible,” the organizer wrote. “Could you share approximately how many Black students there are to order stoles?”

The diversity director responded that the Black Student Union hoped to connect with the recipients to discuss details and asked to be informed of the date “ASAP” so that she could schedule a room.