The University of Connecticut is facing a federal civil rights complaint accusing the school of running campus housing programs that a legal advocacy nonprofit claims to be race-based dormitories for Black and Hispanic students.
The complaint, submitted Wednesday by the Equal Protection Project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation of Barrington, R.I., is asking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity to investigate three UConn residential learning communities that the organization alleges steer students toward housing based on race or ethnicity.
The complaint requests an investigation by HUD to determine whether raced-based housing exists and impose corrective actions if violations are found.
The programs identified in the complaint are ScHOLA2RS, which is aimed at supporting Black male students, BSOUL House, a residential community designed to support Black female students, and La Comunidad Intelectual, a community centered on Latino and Caribbean students.
UConn’s descriptions and promotional material for the three programs create the impression that they are intended primarily for members of those racial and ethnic groups, potentially discouraging other students from applying, according to the complaint.
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