The U.S. Department of Education has announced it will end discretionary funding to many Minority-Serving Institutions (MSI) grant programs.

Wenatchee Valley College received $490,245 through the grant program in 2023, and total funding through 2028 was anticipated at $2,750,338, according to the college website.

The WVC grant funding was used to "improve outcomes and institutional culture for Latinx, low-income, and first-generation students at WVC," according to an announcement of the program.

The impacts of lost grant funding to WVC were not immediately available from the college at the time of this article.

The federal agency believes the MSI grant programs discriminate by conferring government benefits exclusively to institutions that meet racial or ethnic quotas. Education Secret

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