The Civic Rights Group says that the University of San Diego discriminates based on race
EXCLUSIVE – An appeal submitted on Wednesday by a civil rights organization claims that the University of San Diego discriminates on the basis of a race.
“The Equal Protection Project calls for SDU High Administration to ensure that the entire university supports the standards of non -discrimination,” Cornell Professor William Jacobson and the founder of the same protection project, he told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“The SDU should know better than lead scholarships that exclude students based on race, color or ethnicity,” Jacobson added. “Where were the administrators and staff whose jobs were allegedly dedicated to prevent discrimination? Why was there no intervention to support a legal equal approach to education?”
The University of San Diego is a private Catholic university. (Photo Dünzlullstein Bild via Getty Images))
In the appeal, filed on Wednesday, the project of equal protection states that 6 US Scholarship programs violate the title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits educational institutions that receive federal funding from discrimination based on race, colors or national origin.
“We write about San Diego University, a private university, which comes from its discrimination based on race and ethnicity, violating the title VI,” the appeal said.
Scholarships a project of equal protection considers that the title VI is violating. They include Fuso Alumni Network Scholarship, which says that the precedence will receive a Philippine student, a Comité México scholarship, which requires students of Mexican or Mexican-American heritage and black alumni network scholarships, which would prefer a black student.
Similarly, the Latino Alumni Scholarship does not give Latino’s students advantage of students, the color students of the preferences are Augusto Boal -endowed scholarship, and the color students are also the best choice for Gwenndolyn Brooks in charge of the study of humanities, the complaint said.
Fox News Digital addressed the University of San Diego for comment, but did not immediately get an answer.
Dei = diversity, equality and inclusion. (DZMITRY DZEMIDOCH)
The complaint features a letter on Friday “Dear Colleague” of Craig Trainor, acting duties of Assistant Secretary for Civic Rights to Department of EducationThis again confirms the protection of the title VI.
“If the educational institution treats a person of one race differently than treating another person due to the race of that person, the educational institution violates the law,” Trainor wrote.
“Federal law therefore prohibits covered subjects to use a race in decisions related to admission, employment, promotion, compensation, financial assistance, scholarships, awards, administrative support, discipline, accommodation, graduate ceremonies and all other students’ aspects, academic and campus life “, he added. “Simply put, educational institutions cannot separate even separate students on the basis of race, nor distribute the benefits or burden on the basis of a race.”
In the letter, Trainor says that schools that do not in accordance with the guidelines of the title VI.
San Diego University receives millions of dollars of federal research funds, and students can apply for federal assistance to help pay tuition fees.
Jacobson said Fox News Digital That news from OCR is removed every confusion about how the title VI should be implemented.
“On February 14, 2025, the guidelines for civil rights issued by OCR repeats and clarifies crystal, which has always been the law, that” under any banner, discrimination based on race, color or national origin, was and will continue to be illegal “Said Jacobson.” It doesn’t matter what schools call it – “anti -maiden” or “diversity, equality and involvement” or something else – what is important is that a measure of discrimination based on race, color or national origin is not allowed. ”
The Craig Trainor, the acting of the Assistant Secretary for Civic Rights at the Department of Education, published a letter that again confirmed the protection of the title VI. (Erin Scott/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Jacobson said he hoped that the Ministry of Education would not delay the implementation of the title VI.
“While the Federal Department of Education in the transitional period with the change of administration, we invite the Civic Rights Office to continue to implement legal standards applied to schools receiving federal financing, especially in race, color and national level of origin,” Jacobson said. “The transitional period should not delay the implementation of civil rights.”
