My Op-Ed at the California Post: 'Higher education in the state is addicted to group identity, stacking educational benefits and opportunities based on race and ethnicity.... Trying to get discriminatory group identity politics out of higher education is like trying to get soap out of a sponge. We are going to keep squeezing.
My Op-Ed at the California Post: “Higher education in the state is addicted to group identity, stacking educational benefits and opportunities based on race and ethnicity…. Trying to get discriminatory group identity politics out of higher education is like trying to get soap out of a sponge.
We are going to keep squeezing.”Since its launch in February 2023, The Equal Protection Project has challenged over 275 colleges and universities regarding over 750 programs that discriminated as part of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts. We have over 175 wins/impacts and have seen over 40 federal investigations launched after our civil rights complaints, and absolutely massive earned media. We are rapidly expanding, adding just today our third full-time in-house attorney and new Chief Counsel – more on that to come. We’ve had many cases in California for obvious reasons – its where so many of the problems are. Our most recent was a filing earlier this weekregarding five racially-discriminatory programs. That generated substantial media, so much so that we received a request from the newly-launched California Post to write about the DEI problems in the state.Higher education in the state is addicted to group identity, stacking educational benefits and opportunities based on race and ethnicity. The system is infested with discriminatory programming aimed at favoring racial and ethnic minorities over white students.Yes, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard in 2023 that race-conscious admissions decisions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution , and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 .But the problem in higher education is not primarily legal. Rather, the problem is a culture in higher education in which judging students based racial and ethnic group identity is a quasi-religious principle. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion -industrial complex of faculty, administrators, government bureaucrats, consultants, and nonprofits support this deeply embedded belief system, and it will take much more than a court ruling to change hearts and minds. Many schools have responded to the Harvard decision by trying to interpret the Supreme Court ruling as limited to university admissions, when in fact it was an “equal protection” ruling applying to any university activity covered by the 14th Amendment or Title VI.” DEI, including Cornell University, where I teach law. Cornell changed “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” to “Inclusion and Belonging.” Same stuff, different name. It would be funny if it weren’t so damaging.. We cover more than 700 higher education institutions, including medical schools, and it’s horrifying how much mental and monetary effort is expended on checking racial and ethnic boxes and racially gerrymandering education.), we have filed legal challenges against more than 275 higher ed institutions covering more than 750 programs and scholarships that violate civil rights laws. And what we’re finding is that the schools haven’t reformed many of their practices., which runs at 65 California community colleges. The Puente Project provides widespread educational benefits for students transitioning to state universities — including counseling, mentoring, academic courses, priority registration, and advantages in consideration of their University of California and California state college applications.UC Berkeley, for five race- and ethnicity-based programs, including the Black Resource Center, Latinx Student Resource Center, and a scholarship restricted to “African American” students. Effectively segregating students by race and ethnicity still is a thing at Berkeley and elsewhere, but they dress it up in terminology to make this pernicious practice seem benign. Yet under well-settled law set forth in our, racial and ethnic signaling is a civil rights violation because it would likely dissuade students from other racial and ethnic groups from applying or attempting to participate. Trying to get discriminatory group identity politics out of higher education is like trying to get soap out of a sponge. We have found group identity discrimination in many other California college programs and scholarships , includingWe are going to keep squeezing, but what we need is a cultural change to elevate the rights and dignity of the individual above group identity.Reminder: we are a small organization going up against powerful and wealthy government and private institutions devoted to DEI discrimination.
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