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Asian Parents Sue NY State Over Discriminatory Student Programs, With Help From Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2024 13 Comments

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...

NYU “Permanently Discontinued” Discriminatory Whites-Only “Anti-Racist” Parent Program After Equal Protection Project Legal Challenge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2024 11 Comments

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 ...

SUNY Buffalo Law School will “no longer grant a preference based on race or color” after Equal Protection Project civil rights complaint

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2024 16 Comments

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...

Who are we?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2023 13 Comments

As 2023 comes to an end, I thought it made sense to explain to the readers just who we are and what we do, since there have been so many changes in the last couple of years.

Equal Protection Project Racks Up Numerous Wins In First Nine Months Since Launch

Posted by Jack Sorock on December 03, 2023 6 Comments

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....

Scholarships Discriminating Against Asians and Whites At U. Colorado Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 28, 2023 9 Comments

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...

Equal Protection Project Files Brief Opposing Black-Women-Only Grant Program in “Fearless Fund” Appeal

Posted by James Nault on November 13, 2023 3 Comments

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."...

Tuition Waivers Open Only To Non-Whites at U. North Dakota and Its Law School Challenged by Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 09, 2023 3 Comments

“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.”...

SCOTUS Affirmative Action Fallout: RI-Based Charity Halts Race-Based Grant Making

Posted by James Nault on October 27, 2023 9 Comments

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,...

Non-Whites Only Tuition Waiver Program at Bismarck State College Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 24, 2023 16 Comments

“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...

Reuters: Equal Protection Project At Center Of Fight To Eliminate Racial Preferences in Higher Ed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 23, 2023 11 Comments

"A non-profit group opposing race-based education policies has filed more than a dozen U.S. civil rights complaints this year against universities, challenging the legality of offering minority scholarships, summer study and residency programs to promote racial diversity...

Equal Protection Project Files SCOTUS Brief Supporting Asian Students in Coalition for TJ Case

Posted by James Nault on September 22, 2023 9 Comments

Equal Protection Project Files Supreme Court Brief In Support Of Asian Students Challenging Discriminatory High School Admissions Policy: ": "An Intent to Boost Admissions Rates of Preferred Races Necessarily Meant an Intent to Discriminate Against Others"...

Western Kentucky U Race-Based Scholarships Challenged by Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2023 2 Comments

“WKU should know better than to run educational and career programs that exclude students based on race”...

Biden Delays “Gender Identity” Title IX School Sports Change After Intense Opposition, Including By Equal Protection Project

Posted by James Nault on September 07, 2023 28 Comments

Department of Education delays Proposed Rule likely mandating male participation in women's sports; this is a win for women's sports, and those who opposed it, including the Equal Protection Project...

VIDEO: The ‘Reign of Terror’ on Campuses Post-George Floyd and the Threat of AI Internalized Bias

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 04, 2023 15 Comments

I had the pleasure of sitting for an hour-long interview on the American Thought Leaders program on Epoch Times TV, hosted by Jan Jekielek.

Racially Discriminatory Youth Programs At Six Private NY Medical Schools Challenged by Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 22, 2023 7 Comments

"'Erecting additional barriers for some races and ethnic groups in and of itself is unlawful discrimination,' Jacobson told DailyMail.com. 'Imagine if the roles were reversed, and these programs explicitly favored Asians and whites — there would be universal outrage and these medical schools would never...

Kansas State U Racially-Discriminatory “Multicultural” Scholarship Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2023 11 Comments

Applicants for Joey Lee Garmon Multicultural Scholarship “must be of an ethnic group that has been historically and traditionally oppressed in the achievement of academic and leadership endeavors,” with special preference given to “applicants of African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Latinx American heritage”...

“The days when universities could get away with racial discrimination to advance diversity are over”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2023 17 Comments

Our Civil Rights Complaint against the University of Nebraska-Lincoln over its "Black Public Media Residency" program continues to reverberate: "There is no 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion' exception to the anti-discrimination laws and the Equal Protection guarantee in the 14th Amendment."...

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