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University of St. Thomas says federal scholarships for teacher residencies were terminated; students face sudden gaps
Summary
University of St. Thomas told the Education Finance Committee a $6.8 million federal seed grant was canceled for reasons described in the termination notice as related to DEI priorities; faculty and a student resident described scholarship and stipend losses affecting hundreds of candidates in teacher residency and "work-and-learn" pathways.
University of St. Thomas president and special-education faculty told the Minnesota State Education Finance Committee that federal funding enabling scholarship and stipend support for several teacher-preparation pathways was abruptly halted in February when the university received termination notices. The presenters said the two impacted federal awards included a $6.8 million "seed" grant supporting hundreds of scholarship recipients and an earlier Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) grant used to fund living stipends for teacher residents.
"After the close of business on Friday night, February seventh, we received an email ... that it contained a termination letter note giving us notice that the grant had been canceled and that it was canceled because it is, considered a DEI initiative," University of…
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