The University of Missouri will cut off funding for five student affinity organizations starting July, citing guidance that the university can no longer allocate resources or space based on protected demographic characteristics. Instead of designated budgets, affected groups will be required to seek funding through a shared resource pool used by more than 600 campus organizations. The organizations affected include the Legion of Black Collegians and other multicultural umbrella groups such as the Association of Latin American Students, the Asian American Association, the Queer Liberation Front, and FourFront. The groups argue the change effectively ends sustained financial support for programs serving marginalized students. The Legion of Black Collegians, which also describes itself as the university’s historic Black student government, said the funding and designation changes will reduce its ability to operate as a dedicated governing and advocacy body. For higher education, the shift underscores how DOJ-linked guidance and institutional compliance decisions can rapidly reshape campus inclusion infrastructure, affecting student programming budgets, staffing, and engagement systems even when campuses frame the change as restructuring rather than elimination.