The next steps remain unclear in a civil rights investigation into the Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine, but the probe is not an isolated incident. Using the Civil Rights Act to eliminate programs designed to support historically disadvantaged populations is an “unprecedented kind of pivot in the history, in the arc of our civil rights enforcement in our country,” said Robert Kim, a civil rights and education lawyer and executive director of the Education Law Center. “This kind of federal investigation can’t be anything but enormously disruptive and my guess is that’s the intent,” Hirshbein said. Saint Louis University School of Medicine is a private Catholic Jesuit school. The office seems to have no connection to admissions but puts inclusive programming in the medical school, according to the program website.