Legal group accuses Rutgers U. of discrimination against white students

The Legal Call Group has accused the leading public university in New Jersey-Rottgers-discrimination to exclude white students from scholarship programs that recruit African American and indigenous American and Latin students.

The equal protection project submitted a complaint of civil rights against the University of Rutgers to the US Department of Education, claiming that scholarship programs violate federal discrimination laws and are unconstitutional.

“What does Rotters do not understand from non-discrimination? Discrimination based on race, color, or national origin is prohibited under federal law, state law, and even in light of the Rutgers’ special rules. In the equal protection project, we call Rutgers to reach a set of its own rules-this should not be new. ” founder Equality Protection Project.

“Where were the officials and employees who are supposed to be devoted to prevention to prevent discrimination? Why was there no intervention to support access to the required education in legal terms?”

The complaint of the group, which was submitted to the Ministry of Education, accuses four different programs from Rutgers to discriminate by excluding white students, and violating the sixth banks of the 1964 Civil Rights Law, in addition to the protection requirement in the fourteenth amendment.

The Graduate Student Studies Scholarships in Albert WW are appointed to minority students registered in their last year of the Graduate Studies Program for Health Care Management.

GEM Fellowship provides both financial support and internal training opportunities for highly qualified students who are not represented by an incomplete representation who want to follow postgraduate studies in engineering or science.

The National Council of Minorities for Engineering Scholarships is dedicated to students who have been represented unresolved as “African, Indian, Latin or Latin, or/or the first generation.”

Finally, General Motors offer a gift of gift in Rutgers to General Motors workers or their husbands, children and students of “the representative minorities an incomplete representation.”

According to the complaint, Rutgers considers that “minorities” are the ones who “repeat themselves as black, non -Spanish; Indian American or indigenous Alaska; Asian, Hawaiian citizen or other Pacific Islands, or of Spanish origin.”

Educational institutions that receive federal financing must comply with laws against discrimination. The US Department of Education monitors compliance and complaints.

President Trump also issued an executive order directing federal agencies to cancel funding Diversity, fairness and inclusion Programs.

In a statement on Sunday, Rutgers said that she would review the complaint, but indicated that she had already canceled two programs.

The university said in a statement, “The University of Rutgers is still firmly committed to the equal protection granted under the law and refuses to discriminate in all its forms. The university will closely retract the complaint, but based on the initial information, two scholarships were not awarded,” the university said in a statement.

“As the best practice, the university reviews its websites, programs and practices constantly to ensure compliance with federal law and state law.”

The Project of Equal Protection in the complaint that “the Civil Rights Office in the Ministry of Education immediately opens an official investigation, and the imposition of such treatment relief, such as law permits for those who were illegally excluded from scholarships in Rutgers based on competing laws in the field of discrimination, and ensuring that all continuous and programming scholarships in Rutgers in Rutgors and ROTGORS rights in Rutgors and Federal Federal.

The administration has taken measures against Columbia University and New York City University Because of the alleged failure to protect Jewish students from discrimination, which leads to settlements.

The legal invitation group submitted similar discrimination complaints or lawsuits against the Ministry of Education in New York State; New York State University, including New York State University Law, Albani and New York State State University, Bovalo; And the University of Fourdham And Alfred University.

The group challenged more than 100 colleges and college for 500 alleged discrimination and discrimination programs.

“Unfortunately, there is a culture in many universities that cannot be racist discrimination against white students. Racial discrimination in education is wrong and illegal, regardless of who suffers from harm.” Jacobson said.

The US Department of Education had no immediate comment.