DOE vs. UC-B

From the Daily Cal: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has launched another federal investigation into UC Berkeley — this time over three campus resource centers and two external scholarships that allegedly discriminate on the basis of race, color or national origin. The investigation, first reported by the California Post, follows a Feb. 10 civil rights complaint filed by the Legal Insurrection Foundation, a conservative nonprofit and media organization. The complaint targeted campus’s African American Student Development Office, Black Resource Center and Latinx Student Resource Center, as well as the African American Initiative Scholarship and the Lloyd A. Edwards Scholarship.

According to a Nov. 3 letter from the OCR to the Legal Insurrection Foundation acknowledging the investigation, the foundation alleged in the complaint that, even if they did not explicitly exclude students on the basis of race, the resource centers’ program’s titles and descriptions dissuade certain groups from participating. The foundation further alleged that the scholarships have criteria that exclude students on the basis of race, color or national origin. “UC Berkeley is fully committed to creating a learning environment that is free from all forms of discrimination,” said campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore in a statement. “The two scholarships in question are awarded to students by external sources and not by university, federal, or state funding sources.” ...

Full story at https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/department-of-education-opens-investigation-into-uc-berkeley-black-latine-resource-centers-and-scholarships/article_773977c9-7298-4985-ba67-8a73125525bb.html.