ACR Project Files Administrative Complaint with DOJ and ED, Challenging Host of Discriminatory Programs at Cal State Northridge
The ACR Project filed an administrative complaint challenging a host of discriminatory programs at Cal State Northridge.
ACR Project and Manhattan Institute Comment on CFPB’s Proposed Improvements to ECOA Regulations
The ACR Project and Manhattan Institute jointly comment in support of CFPB's proposed improvements to its Equal Credit Opportunity Act regulations.
ACR Project Files Administrative Complaint with DOJ and ED, Challenging UC System’s “Hispanic Serving Institutions” Grant Program
The ACR Project filed an administrative complaint with the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education, challenging the illegality of the University of California-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative. The program prefers to send UC's funding to even private schools enrolling the proscribed racial balance than to let those dollars fund only work at UC campuses that don't.
UPDATE: ACR Project Alerts Ohio AG Yost to Public Records Documenting That Wright State Administered Racial Scholarships Far More Directly Than Previously Known
Public Records reflect that Wright State continued to directly administer racially discriminatory scholarships long after Ohio's AG instructed public institutions to comply with federal nondiscrimination law.
Comment on Rescissions and Rule Modifications Following the Revocation of EO 11246
The ACR Project filed a comment supporting the DOL's rescission of rules rendered a nullity by President Trump's Equality Order. We highlighted additional justifications for the move and suggested further potential improvements that could be made to the related final regulations.
ACR Project Warns Auburn University & the Auburn University Foundation of the Unconstitutionality of Their Race-Based Scholarships
Today we warned Auburn University and the Auburn University Foundation that their racially exclusive scholarships violate the U.S. Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, among other federal civil rights laws.
ACR Project Expresses Concerns with California’s Newest Batch of Discriminatory Legislative Proposals
If the California Legislature is in session, some member is proposing the unconstitutional favoring of individuals based on ancestry. This session, that's again a winning bet (however the people of California must feel about that fact). Once more, Assemblymembers and Senators have proposed a whole slate of discriminatory bills (and one discriminatory state constitutional amendment). We've submitted letters to both chambers expressing concerns with the legality and constitutionality of a host of those proposals.
ACR Project Alerts Congress to Unconstitutional MSI Programs
Today, the ACR Project alerted the House and Senate to the clear unconstitutionality of programs they should defund and repeal. ACR Project Chairman Gail Heriot, E.D. Dan Morenoff, and Director Peter Kirsanow signed the letters, which you can read, below. They concern the Minority Serving Institutions ("MSI") programs and their approximately billion dollars in annual funding.
Peter Kirsanow and Gail Heriot (of ACR Project Board) Submit Legislative Proposal on Accreditation to Congress
On February 18th, two U.S. Civil Rights Commissioners (and ACR Project Directors) proposed an improvement to the Higher Education Act.
The ACR Project, FASORP, WILL, and CEO File Wide-Sweeping Title VII Charge Against the ABA
The ACR Project, FASORP, WILL, and CEO file wide-sweeping Title VII Charge Against the ABA. The ACR Project and WILL anticipate that the EEOC will take corrective action. Should it not do so, the ACR Project anticipates taking further action on behalf of FASORP to bring the ABA into compliance with American nondiscrimination law.