The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has scrapped long-running investigations of programs for minority students at colleges in Missouri, New York, and North Carolina, based mainly on its determinations that the programs either have ended race-based participation criteria or consider race narrowly enough to comply with federal antidiscrimination laws.

Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Education-Dept-Clears/136213/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en