On September 10, 2025, our MSI community’s biggest fear came true as the Department of Education announced it would end $350 million in discretionary funding to enrollment-based  Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). Enrollment-based MSIs are institutions that do not have a distinct mission to serve their stated population but have reached an arbitrary enrollment threshold making them eligible for federal funding. Enrollment-based MSIs include: Hispanic-Serving Institutions
