Alma College’s Discriminatory ‘Campbell Scholars Program’ Challenged By Equal Protection Project
“The Campbell Program is an official program at Alma College that conditions eligibility on race and color.”
The Equal Protection Project (EqualProtect.org) is a project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation devoted to fighting unlawful discrimination in all forms. While most of our cases have involved race, color, and national origin discrimination, we challenge all forms of unlawful discrimination, including sex discrimination.
Since its launch, EPP has challenged over 800 discriminatory programs and scholarships at more than 275 colleges and universities. This is done to ensure that every student has the opportunity to compete on equal terms.
Our most recent filing on May 28, 2026, was a Civil Rights Complaint against Alma College (“Alma”):
We bring this civil rights complaint against Alma College (“Alma”), a private institution, regarding its Campbell Scholars Program (the “Campbell Program”) which racially discriminates in violation of Title VI.
We then go on to explain what the Campbell Program is and how it violates the Civil Rights Act:
The Campbell Program is an official program at Alma College that conditions eligibility on race and color. The program “… provides cultural, academic, social, and financial literacy resources and mentorship to students of color and their allies during their four years at Alma College.” Further, first year members must live in the Julius Chatman Living Learning Community (JCLLC), effectively separating students by race in living accommodations.
Link: https://www.alma.edu/about/offices-services/diversity-and-inclusion-at-almacollege/alma-college-campbell-scholars-program/
Discriminatory Requirement: “Eligibility: Self identify as a student of color (i.e. Black/African American, Native American, Hispanic/Latino/a/x, Asian, Pacific Islander, Multi-racial).”
EPP then explains why such a requirement violates federal law:
Alma expressly states that the program is limited to “students who identify as students of color,” which it defines as “Black/African American, Native American, Hispanic/Latino/a/x, Asian, Pacific Islander, [and] Multi-racial” students. The eligibility requirements also allow students who are “interested in advocating for the advancement of students of color in higher education if you are a student of color or do not identify as a student of color,” which itself is a discriminatory structure, because students of color are automatically eligible, but other students need to show the additional factor of a particular viewpoint. This discriminatory standard is unlawful as it treats students differently based on race, color, and national origin.
As we always do, we then spend several pages explaining why the program violates not only federal and state law, but also the university’s own non-discrimination rules. We then request that a formal investigation be opened.
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Robert Fox is an attorney at the Equal Protection Project, and focuses, among things, on filing civil rights complaints against DEI discrimination.
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Comments
Is there any repercussions for these colleges and universities who continually break federal law like this? It’s one after another. How can they not know discrimination is against the law?
I think they know, they just don’t care.
I think they should get 1 or 2 warnings. And after that, heavy fines with compensation for those who bring these charges, ie EPP and others.
These racist and lawless Dhimmi-crat puke-administrators in higher education never learn, it seems.
There is no such thing as allegedly benign, laudable or remedial racial/ethnic discrimination in the U.S., with new beneficiaries and new victims, and all of it is unlawful and unconstitutional.
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