Purdue Extension is committed to encouraging and welcoming inclusive excellence. We recognize that we all benefit when we cultivate an inclusive and welcoming community where the unique contributions, ...

When Tom Vilsack became head of the Agriculture Department last year, he faced a backlog of 11,000 civil rights complaints and several unresolved class-action lawsuits from minority farmers and ...

June 24, 2025 – Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was terminating another batch of grant contracts already in place, because ...

Agriculture Department employees found to have engaged in discriminatory actions would be subject to discipline ranging from a letter of reprimand to dismissal under a bill filed Thursday by Rep.

Before I was sworn in as Secretary of Agriculture, recent folks who had the job—both Republican and Democratic—suggested that it was important that I set a new, proactive course to move past USDA’s ...

The nominee said he’ll stand by laws against discrimination at the Department of Agriculture. The Trump administration’s pick to head the Agriculture Department’s civil rights office acknowledged ...

The department has launched the Agriculture Learning System to provide one-stop learning services for USDA employees nationwide. The Agriculture Department has launched the Agriculture Learning System ...

In the end, it was the commute that got to Vernon Parker, the embattled civil rights director at the Department of Agriculture. He was flying home to Paradise Valley, Ariz., every week, piling up debt ...