Organizations objective schools for programs that emphasize race, sex, and awards.
Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s administration, many federal civil rights issues have been filed by several organizations with the intention of erasing competition and sex-based bias on campuses across the country.
Two of the experts leading the charge on some of these problems told The College Fix that they are optimistic that the new administration may take action to address these concerns.
The Equal Protection Project, Defending Education, and Do No Harm are the three organizations that are responsible for a number of the complaints filed under Title VI and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which forbid organizations that receive open revenue from engaging in discrimination on the grounds of race or sex.
The University of Alabama, Westfield State University, Pennsylvania College of Technology, and Drake University were all accused by the constitutional advocacy group EPP in April.
These problems relate to unlawful discrimination based on race and sex, including UA’s black-only fellowships, Westfield’s six restricted scholarships, and Penn College’s 12 biased programs.
According to Cornell Law Professor and EPP co-founder William Jacobson, “in all of our circumstances, the main goal is to stop the prejudice and to start the system or award to all students,” “in the majority of our cases, the main goal is to stop the bias” and “open the system or award to all students.”
” The removal of discriminatory restrictions was the outcome in almost all of our circumstances that have been resolved. We hope to have the same sort of success with our pending instances,” he said.
Jacobson added that changing public views are a part of EPP’s strategy, not just addressing certain circumstances. The organization’s problems frequently go along with extensive media coverage, which enables it to reveal to tens of millions of people why there is discrimination against students in schools and why it is unfair.
When asked what he thought of the federal police he expects from these complaints, Jacobson claimed that the Office for Civil Rights of President Trump has been “extremely lively” in some fields and has opened an investigation into several of our cases that have sat unfinished under the Biden administration.
According to what I’ve observed, the fresh OCR obviously has a desire to combat La discrimination, and he said that he hopes this desire will lead to more aggressive actions.
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In April, a different advocacy group, Defending Education, sued Southern Illinois University for prejudice against race and gender in “programs or actions that receive federal financial help.”
The problem lists” 33 honours, funds, scholarships, fellowships, and internships that are only applicable to specific students based on race and/or sex,” according to the complaint.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is accused of providing “financial advantages” to students based on their race in a second complaint filed by the nationwide grassroots movement.
The complaint claims that the University offers a scholarship between$ 1, 000 and$ 3, 300 per academic year to give financial aid to constitution designated majority Wisconsin undergraduate students.
Despite the Supreme Court’s latest conviction that eradicating race prejudice means eradicating all of it, DE Vice President Sarah Perry stated via email that the group’s “research and investigating has yielded a treasure trove of continuing unfair practices in higher knowledge.”
The group has discovered that” some universities are habitual perpetrators of discriminatory practices,” while “others are newer to the race essentialism game.”
Perry expressed hope that the Trump administration will launch inquiries into the institutions named in DE’s complaints, a step the Department of Education has already shown an interest in.
The Department’s investigations, stakeholder communications, and the most recent lawsuit against the State of Maine have shown that there is a new sheriff in town for American educators, and she said the time is now for discriminatory practices in higher education.
The Maine program, according to the Department of Justice, allowed trans-identifying men to play in women’s sports, and it violated Title IX.
In March, the medical advocacy group Do No Harm filed a complaint against Duke University Health System, citing the institution’s “numerous and blatant uses of race-based preferences in hiring, medical-school admissions, and other initiatives,” despite the university’s receipt of federal funding.
Do No Harm’s complaint states that” Racial preferences pervade DUHS’s student recruitment and admissions, resulting in a student body composed of individuals who reflect preferred skin colors, rather than individual merit.
In the past two weeks, The Fix has emailed each of the universities mentioned in this story for comment. No responses have been received.
Following President Trump’s executive order on January 21 to” End Illegal Discrimination And Restore Merit-Based Opportunity,” the complaints are brought on board.
Further, The U.S. Department of Education launched Title VI investigations into 45 universities in March for allegedly using “race-exclusionary practices” in their graduate programs, The College Fix previously reported.
MORE: An Asian American group claims Yale still practices racial discrimination.
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