George Mason University president Gregory Washington won’t apologize for the university’s work on DEI, his lawyer said in a letter to the college’s board of visitors.

The president’s response comes days after President Donald Trump’s administration announced it had found George Mason committed acts of racial discrimination and demanded an apology from Washington.

The Mason president’s attorney says the Department of Education conducted a slipshod investigation, mischaracterized the Mason president’s statements and omitted the university’s work in recent years to revise its DEI practices. The investigation was “cut short” and resulted in “a very incomplete fact-finding process,” said Douglas F. Gansler, a lawyer for the Mason president.

Apologizing would require Washington to admit to

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