For NAS & FASORP, the ACR Project Moves to Intervene in Tennessee’s HSI Litigation

For NAS and FASORP, the ACR Project filed to join Tennessee’s challenge to the Hispanic Serving Institutions programs’ discriminatory criteria.  You can read the motion and proposed Complaint in Intervention, below.

The HSI Programs represent the largest of a $1 billion set of similarly discriminatory federal programs.* They deny schools funding because too few of their students are Hispanic, while too many identify with other racial groups. Under settled law, these programs unconstitutionally discriminate based on race.

Through these programs, the federal government discriminates against students because of their races. They discriminate against faculty and their schools because of the races of their students. They incentivize schools (including public schools) to violate federal civil rights statutes (and public schools to violate the Fourteenth Amendment).

That’s wrong. It’s illegal. It must stop.

NAS’s & FASORP’s members deserve the chance for their institutions to fairly compete for education dollars, whatever their races or the races of their peers and students. Those members have the right not to be denied funding for their research, services, or education because of their races and the races of their students and classmates.

The Court must stop the federal government from continuing to deny these rights.

* – You can read more on our work to reform these programs here, here, and here.