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More than 50 uni­ver­si­ties are be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed for al­leged racial dis­crim­i­na­tion as part of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s cam­paign to end di­ver­si­ty, eq­ui­ty and in­clu­sion pro­grams that his of­fi­cials say ex­clude white and Asian Amer­i­can stu­dents.

The Ed­u­ca­tion De­part­ment an­nounced the new in­ves­ti­ga­tions Fri­day, one month af­ter is­su­ing a memo warn­ing Amer­i­ca’s schools and col­leges that they could lose fed­er­al mon­ey over “race-based pref­er­ences” in ad­mis­sions, schol­ar­ships or any as­pect of stu­dent life.

“Stu­dents must be as­sessed ac­cord­ing to mer­it and ac­com­plish­ment, not pre­judged by the colour of their skin,” Ed­u­ca­tion Sec­re­tary Lin­da McMa­hon said in a state­ment. “We will not yield on this com­mit­ment.”