evt_2026_0027
OCR found that the University of Kentucky violated Title VI through participation in The PhD Project.
OCR's September 23, 2025 letter states that it resolved a complaint alleging the University of Kentucky discriminated on the bases of race and national origin through support for The PhD Project conference. The letter states that conference participation was limited to Black/African American, Latinx/Hispanic American, or Native American/Canadian Indigenous applicants and that white or Asian American applicants were not eligible.
Public institutional response
The OCR letter states that the University canceled its participation in The PhD Project events and that the letter was accompanied by a draft resolution agreement specifying actions to remedy the Title VI violation.
- Response date
- 2025-09-23
- Legal status
- OCR Title VI violation finding and draft resolution agreement
- School
- University of Kentucky
- Date
- 2025-09-23
- Location
- Lexington, KY
- Category
- OCR complaint
- Communities
- Asian, Black, Latino, Native, Indigenous
- Verification
- Verified from public source
- Confidence
- High
- Verification rationale
- Verified from public source; 1 public source reviewed (Government letter). Confidence reflects source support, not severity.
- Last updated
- 2026-06-03
- Record hash
- sha256:d852213ddf9900835a32cb9c6bc66287d4419f28e2ed01dbfb55a4448f6fb59b