The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights received a complaint from the liberal Young America’s Foundation.
Gettysburg College has filed a civil rights issue against it because it purports to participate” 20 % domestic students of color” in a alleged violation of federal anti-discrimination rules and the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw affirmative action in admissions.
Young America’s Foundation, which has a liberal student team on school, submitted the complaint to the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on April 3.
Cultural quotas are the most fundamental and obvious change from a white admissions procedure, according to the problem, which draws inspiration from the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which stated a university cannot use a quota system that “has a certain number of seats reserved for individuals from a recommended racial group.”
The problem cites a March 31 display to the student state in which Senior Assistant Director of Admissions Luke Frigon discussed the goals for the future fall semester as proof of the plan. According to a picture of the lecture, which included a slideshow, the objectives included admitting” 20 % home students of color.”
Frigon did not respond to The College Fix’s request for comment.
The legal rights company received a complaint from Young America’s Foundation about Gettysburg’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, which might violate anti-discrimination laws, in mid-March. The issue about the quotas for cultural admission was an addendum.
No specific date has been set for how long the Department of Education will examine the issue, according to Spencer Brown, a YAF official, but it appears that the Trump management prioritizes inquiries into schools that might be breaking federal law.
The admissions policy “appears to be a culmination of a long-held plan,” according to the YAF’s limits issue, because Gettysburg’s website publicly boasts its” Enrollment of…students of shade” program.
According to the website,” In Fall 2024, among full-time, degree-seeking undergraduates at the College, 14 % were foreign students, 21 % were domestic students of color, 62 percent were domestic white students, and 3 percent were domestic students whose ethnicity and race were unknown.”
Brown claimed that “in the court of public opinion,” institutions will drop if they violate the Kids for Fair Admissions choice.
The other 21-page issue from YAF, which asserts that its students” experience significant prejudice on campus, where radical administrators and university apply so-called and frequently self-appointed authority to stop traditional speech,” was submitted on March 17 by YAF.
The complaint also includes a parade of the college DEI department’s extensive programming. Programs and policies cited in the complaint also provide more information. The college is alleged to be violating Title VI, Title IX, anti-DE I executive orders issued by the Trump administration, and the Education Department’s” Dear Colleague” letter, which warns colleges that their DEI programs could be in violation of federal law and could lose funding.
The Gettysburgian student newspaper reported that the College’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, numerous identity and diversity-related student organizations, a student residential space, numerous College policies and statements, an academic department, and numerous identity and diversity-related events that have been held on campus by various organizations.
After many of its conservative students experienced bullying and pressure on campus, Brown told The Fix that YAF filed the complaints.
” YAF’s got their back when our students are under attack,” said YAF. Gettysburg College’s YAF members let us know what was happening, and we intervened to bring attention to the school’s actions and take steps to stop them, he said.
However, College President Bob Iuliano disputes these allegations and pledges to continue supporting DEI by stating in a memo to the campus community that” the College conducts its operations with a deep respect for its legal and ethical responsibilities.” We don’t agree that the College is breaking civil rights laws, but we will discuss that with OCR if it decides to launch an investigation.
And as The College Fix reported in February,” Gettysburg College continues to go full steam ahead with DEI initiatives in response to a “racial incident” that is likely to be a hoax, and the school and the alleged victim’s family have acknowledged the complexity of the situation,” according to The College Fix.
MORE: Gettysburg College is forced to spend more DEI money because of a probable hoax.
IMAGE CAPTION AND CREDIT: A photo of a Gettysburg College/Young America’s Foundation slide show.
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