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Sen. Cruz calls out $25 million in UTEP funding as 'Woke DEI Grants'

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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Senator Ted Cruz (R - Texas) is targeting thousands of federally-funded grants awarded during the previous White House administration as "questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda," including more than a dozen grants awarded to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Cruz, who chairs the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Tr…

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UTEP provost emails faculty on grant funding concerns; university stays mum on Cruz criticism of research quality

The University of Texas at El Paso’s top academic official sent an email Thursday morning to a faculty rattled by a series of executive orders and reports that could affect their research projects.John Wiebe, provost and vice president for academic affairs, sent the email hours after an El Paso Matters story revealed that 17 UTEP grants from the National Science Foundation were on a list of research projects that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, labeled …

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Sen. Cruz calls out $25 million in UTEP funding as 'Woke DEI Grants'

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Senator Ted Cruz (R - Texas) is targeting thousands of federally-funded grants awarded during the previous White House administration as "questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda," including more than a dozen grants awarded to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Cruz, who chairs the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Tr…

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UTEP leaders silent as Ted Cruz accuses researchers of using ‘woke DEI grants’ - Open Campus

UTEP researchers won a prestigious $1 million grant in 2022 to better understand the evolution of birds. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says it’s one of thousands of National Science Foundation grants in recent years – including 17 to the University of Texas at El Paso – that are examples of “how the Biden administration weaponized federal agencies to push a far-left ideology.”  Cruz this week released a spreadsheet of more than 3,000 NSF grants t…

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