Investigation

From the Daily Cal: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an inquiry [last week] into a complaint against UC Berkeley over allegations that five campus programs constitute racial discrimination and thereby violate federal law. The Equal Protection Project, part of conservative advocacy group Legal Insurrection Foundation, filed the complaint Feb. 10. The programs being targeted are the African American Student Development Office, Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center, Latinx Student Resource Center, African American Initiative Scholarship and Lloyd A. Edwards Scholarship.

The EPP alleges these programs are only open to certain students based on race, either explicitly or through “strong racial signaling,” and thereby violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment...

Full story at https://www.dailycal.org/news/race-and-diversity/department-of-education-opens-inquiry-after-complaint-against-uc-berkeley-black-latine-student-programs/article_cea6d880-a406-47aa-a0f4-d6e304941dca.html.