An appeal submitted on Wednesday by the Civic Rights Organization claims that the University of Calvin, the University of Christian Liberal Arts in Michigan, discriminates on the basis of gender and race.
“A large number (65) discriminatory scholarships to Calvin is shocking, ‘Cornell Professor William Jacobson and the founder of the same protection project, he told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“At Equaliprotect.org, we challenged discriminatory programs and scholarships to over 60 colleges and universities, but we never saw such a large number in any individual institution.”
Scholarships stated that the same protection project discriminate, including one based on a race and the other on sex.
Scholarships that claims the same protection project are discriminating Scholarship of endurancewhich requires the applicant “only identified as an African -American who is an American citizen” and Transracial scholarship to adoptwhich requires the applicant to be “trans-cotially adopted” and Carol L. Faber Mathematical Scholarshipwhich requires “the first preference for a female student.” The amount of the scholarship is $ 3,000, $ 3,500 and $ 3,100.
The project of equal protection claims that these programs of scholarship programs are violated by the title VI of the 1964 Civic Rights Act, which prohibits educational institutions that receive federal funding from discrimination based on race, color or national origin, as well as IX titles, which forbids discrimination on the basis of gender or gender for subjects receiving funding.
2020Calvin University received a grant of $ 935,000 from the education department or $ 187,000 a year for five years, for students who have disability, with low revenues or which are the first generation.
On your websiteCalvin University cites federal scholarships for students involving $ 7,395 Pell Grant, an additional donation for education for up to $ 2,000 and a lecture support up to $ 4,000.
Jacobson told Fox News Digital that he hoped that education secretary Linda McMahon would focus on the renewal of civil rights.
“While Department of Education It goes through restructuring, implementing the Civic Rights Act to remove Dei discrimination remains the priority of the new Trump administration, “Jacobson said.” We hope that McMahon Secretary will retain this focus on the implementation of civil rights to improve the overall agent of civil rights administration rights. The implementation of the implementation of the backward would be suicide and would disrupt the efforts to remove discrimination done on behalf of Dei in higher education. “
On Tuesday, employees of the Department of Education received a notification of “reduction in force” before approximately half of the employees of the department were released.
Nearly half of the staff of the Education Department will be removed immediately
The building of the American Department of Education is seen on August 21, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
In its complaint, the project of equal protection quotes justice Antonin Scalia in accordance Richmond vs me cross co.where he said that “discrimination based on race is an illegal, immoral, unconstitutional, inherently wrong and destructive from a democratic society.”
“In accordance with respect, we ask that the Civic Rights Office for Civic Rights Priority and accelerates this appeal with respect to the pure number of discriminating scholarships in Calvin, which reflects systematic disrespect for the title VI and IX, immediately opened formal research, imposes such federal reliefs from the laws of those exposed to those who were in accordance with those who Permissions for lawyers that were all of a law.
Fox News Digital He reached to Calvin University for comment and has not yet received an answer.
Doge protesters outside the Washington Education Department, DC, March 11, 2025. (Peter Pinedo/Fox News Digital)
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