"The number and scope of these discriminatory programs reflects a systemic discrimination problem at WIU" ...
AG Bailey: “As the chief legal officer for the State of Missouri, I am prepared to exercise my office’s full authority under the law, including the Missouri Human Rights Act, to ensure no Missouri school district discriminates against its students or staff."...
We are pleased to see that our actions are helping change the narrative on campuses nationwide, even those where we have not filed a complaint....
"Applicants may be of any ethnic group."...
Defendant Fearless Fund's attorney admits during oral argument in 11th Circuit that allowing Black-Women-Only grant contracting means Whites-Only also lawful....
Short version: White and Asian (non-Pacific Islander) students cannot apply for the Meares scholarship unless they are "LGBTQI+". So your straight White or Asian student whose "gender identity" aligns with their biological sex cannot apply....
"The discriminatory BIPOC Fellows program reflects how core university and constitutional principles of equality have been damaged by DEI.”...
My radio appearance about our lawsuit for Asian parents challenging discrimination in the NY STEP Act: "Why did no one say anything? Why did nobody at the Department of Education say, hey, should we really be doing this? ...
Lawsuit seeks to end discrimination affecting over 10,000 secondary school students taking programs at 56 colleges and universities in NY State: "The Equal Protection Project is proud to team up with Pacific Legal to challenge discriminatory standards in the STEP program so that students do...
Another EPP win. Program was DEI white-shaming to train white parents to be better allies: "The University stated that on or about August 22, 2023, it ...
Another EPP win: "On November 21, 2023, the University informed OCR that the University had revised the Program’s eligibility criteria so that they no longer grant a preference based on race or color and that the University had revised its webpages about the Program to...
Of the 20 racially discriminatory programs and practices we’ve challenged over the past nine months, we've already notched nine wins ending discriminatory conduct and three other impacts altering but not yet ending discriminatory programming....
CU-Denver and CU-Boulder's "voluntary and ongoing participation in and active promotion of the McNair Scholarship program, which awards funding, research and scholarship opportunities to students based on their race and skin color, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution...
District Court found racially-exclusive contracting was protected speech. In our brief in the 11th Circuit, Equal Protection Project argues: "this court must reverse the district court’s erroneous order that Appellees’ First Amendment speech rights trump conduct covered by 42 U.S.C. § 1981."...
“This is much worse than what Harvard and USC were accused of doing” by taking race into consideration, as rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court. “Here, you have absolute barriers based on race and ethnicity.”...
In response to inquiry from the Equal Protection Project, the Papitto Opportunity Connection states "going forward, we will support initiatives that are designed to foster diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging but that do not condition eligibility on race, do not make decisions based on race,...
“Bismarck State needs to extend the deadline for the upcoming tuition waiver program cycle so that students who did not apply because of the racial and ethnic barriers have a chance to apply [and] to retroactively apply tuition waivers to students who were excluded based...
