Students involved with one University of Michigan group were all set up to phone-bank for a Supreme Court race in Wisconsin Thursday night. But hours before, word got around the Ann Arbor university was expected to announce it was rolling back diversity,

The University of Michigan is scrapping its once-vaunted program for diversity, equity and inclusion as the Trump administration pressures colleges to abandon such efforts and after months of criticism over its cost and effectiveness.

The University of Michigan will immediately end its diversity, equity and inclusion program after months of discussion about potential rollbacks to the initiatives, which galvanized hundreds of students,