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From Fox News: The University of Virginia appears to have changed the website description of a mentoring program for BIPOC students after a civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education.
A federal civil rights complaint filed by the Equal Protection Project (EPP) on October 1 accused the University of Virginia of “creating, sponsoring and promoting a racially discriminatory program called the BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program” by excluding White students from the program designed to help classmates who fall into the “Black, Indigenous and People of Color” category.
The complaint noted that the program’s goal is to “improve BIPOC undergraduates’ program experiences, career opportunities, and retention through pairing these learners with alumni mentors,” but the EPP feels such initiatives should benefit all students.
“The BIPOC Mentoring Program violates Title VI because it conditions eligibility for participation on a student’s race, ethnicity and skin color. And, because UVA is a public university, its creation, sponsorship, promotion and hosting of this discriminatory program also violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the complaint, which has been obtained by Fox News Digital, stated.
According to the school’s website, the program is “made possible by the generosity of the UVA Parents Program and is overseen by EHD’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI).”
An archive (as recently as Oct. 2) of the school’s website on the Internet Archives Wayback Machine says the BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program was seeking “up to 25 BIPOC undergraduates.”
The website has since been edited to says the program is seeking “up to 25 undergraduates” and admits the “program was created with BIPOC students in mind.”
Equal Protection Project (@ProtectionEqual) filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against the University of Virginia for sponsoring the racially discriminatory BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program. https://t.co/IImX1ELsBG
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) October 3, 2024
University of Virginia hit with civil rights complaint, accused of racial discrimination against Whites https://t.co/HmIhmOdPGi
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 9, 2024
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