Department officials said that the group limits eligibility based on race and that colleges that partner with it are “engaging in race-exclusionary

The Education Department announced the new investigations, one month after warning America’s schools and colleges that they could lose federal money over “race-based preferences.”

The man last known to be seen with a University of Pittsburgh student before she vanished from a beach in the Dominican Republic gave more details to local prosecutors about the last time he saw her, Dominican news agency Noticias SIN reported.