University eliminates speech that excites students of all races from scholarship
Following a national complaint from Do No Harm, the University of Colorado Boulder has updated its scholarship program for “underrepresented” immigrants.
The public school was sued by the physician reform group for its radiation oncology-focused medical school scholarship. The award now says it is “open to all entrants”.
According to the media release from Do No Harm, “[T]he Represented Minority Visiting Elective Scholarship was only available to students from teams that are historically underserved in treatments,” excluding white and Asian National individuals.
The$ 2, 000 scholarship was open to” African American/Black, Native American, Hispanic/Latino, Pacific Islander, LGBTQ+]applicants ], or those from a disadvantaged socioeconomic background”, according to the settlement.
” Do No Harm has at least one member who is ready and able to apply for the award, but could without criminal relief from the physician school’s unlawful cultural preferences”, according to the lawsuit.
The president of Do No Harm praised the colony.
In a press release, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb stated,” We are pleased that University of Colorado eliminated the racial requirement for this scholarship. He is a former associate professor of the University of Pennsylvania’s health school.
” Cultural discrimination is evil and has no place in health training”, Goldfarb stated. According to the statement,” Health scholarships may be awarded to the most qualified applicant based on merit, not race.”
According to CPR News, the school will also start offering a second software called” Graduate Encounters for Multicultural Students” to students of all races.
A 2021 information page for the program stated applicants may be” selected on the basis of interest in medical science research careers, scientific achievement and inclusion in an represented group or category” which included” second generation college attendee, small income, financial need, or tribal identity as African American, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaska Native, or East Asian, Pacific Islander”.
On the most recent information page for the summer 2025 session, the university states,” We encourage all interested individuals to apply, including individuals from groups that historically have lacked access to biomedical sciences.”
As previously reported by The College Fix, President Donald Trump has recently taken aim at programs that discriminate based on race.
Last Friday, the Department of Education released a” Dear Colleague” guidance letter to colleges informing them that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids DEI programs that discriminate against people based on race.
The letter also stated that other programs that are excluded due to race are also covered by the 2023 Supreme Court decision Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which prohibited affirmative action in admissions decisions.
The educational institution violates the law, according to assistant secretary for civil rights Craig Trainor, “if it treats a person of one race differently than it treats another person because of that person’s race.”
Colleges can lose their federal funding if they violate civil rights protections, the Dept. of Ed. warned.
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