AAU joined ACE and 54 other higher education organizations on a letter calling on Education Department to suspend its “unprecedented and unwarranted investigation” of Princeton University. Across the nation, colleges and universities are engaged in a “national reckoning about the role systemic racism and racial violence and injustice has played in the history of our country and the continuing need to assess, address, and right the wrongs that continue to exist today,” the letter notes. The organizations go on to say that the investigation is “likely to chill the genuine efforts of hundreds of other institutions, many without the resources that Princeton has to defend itself against a federal investigation, to identify, recognize, and correct injustices.”