The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a broad civil rights investigation into the University of California system over claims that its faculty hiring practices may involve race- and sex-based discrimination,

DOJ officials will examine whether UC campuses discriminated on the basis of race or sex as part of efforts to increase faculty diversity.

Saying UC "may be engaged" in sex and race-based discrimination, the Trump administration has opened up an investigation of the University of California's hiring practices.