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Education Department threatens funding for university program it sees as biased – The Washington Post

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The Education Department is threatening to withhold federal grant money from a Middle East studies program, saying it advances an ideological agenda and promotes a positive view of Islam while virtually ignoring Judaism, Christianity and other religions.

The agency ordered the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies to revise its offerings or risk losing its $235,000 federal grant.

Conservatives have long accused universities of harboring anti-Semitic bias and have called for probes into course offerings. But critics in higher education accused the administration of politicizing colleges and universities and violating academic freedom with this latest action.

The letter, sent in August, was published this week in the Federal Register, and was seen as a move to put other universities on notice. It was not clear whether other programs have been asked to revise their offerings.

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