Four race-based scholarships at the University of Wyoming violate federal law, a new complaint from a conservative legal advocacy group alleges.
The Equal Protection Project’s civil rights complaint states the programs violate both Title VI and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by discriminating based on sex, race, or national origin.
The Hearst Scholars Award Scholarship, for example, is only available to “American Indian/Alaska Native; Asian American/Pacific Islander; Black/African American; or Hispanic/Mexican American/Latino/Chicano” students, according to the complaint.
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Reached for comment, EPP founder William Jacobson told The College Fix the complaint “is based on how the scholarships are promoted and the eligibility criteria set forth by the university on its website.”
Jacobson referenced past rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming that the harm is the barrier itself, not the inability of others to obtain the benefit.
“The existence of race-based eligibility criteria is itself the harm, regardless of whether particular individuals applied and were rejected,” Jacobson told The Fix.
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