SUNY Buffalo Law School Faces Discrimination Complaint Over Summer Pipeline Program That Gives Preference To Students Of Color And First Gen Students

New York Post, SUNY Buffalo Law School Faces Discrimination Complaint Over ‘Students Of Color’ Program:

A self-described anti-racism group has filed a federal civil-rights complaint against the State University of New York’s Buffalo School of Law for running a summer program that gives preference to “students of color” over white students.

SUNY Buffalo Law’s Discover Law Undergraduate Scholars Program chooses 20 students who are interested in studying law to spend four weeks on-campus over the summer at no cost, while receiving a stipend.

“Preference is given to students of color and first-generation college students,” UBL Law says in promotional brochures. 

In its June 27 complaint, the Equal Protection Project told the US Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights that the racial preference program “based on race and skin color” violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment as well as Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

“A law school above all should be familiar with the law, particularly such clear law as it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or color. We can only assume that the law school understood that what it was doing violated the anti-discrimination laws, but chose to do it anyway in the service of ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ ideology,” said William A. Jacobson, founder of EqualProtect.org. ...

A spokeswoman at SUNY Buffalo Law said, “We do not comment on pending litigation.”

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