"Can't one be sued for discrimination for not hiring graduates of a certain college? I appreciate your idea, but have you talked to a lawyer about this?
The simple answer to your question is no. Education is an allowable form of discrimination.
For instance, you have two applicants who have identical degrees. One received his degree from Princeton University, and the other from Parsons. You hire the candidate from Princeton based upon the reputation of the institution granting the degree. Can you be sued? NO.
Or- both applicants have identical degrees but one has a transcript reflecting additional study in areas that would be an asset to the company you are hiring for. Can you be sued for selecting the applicant that had taken the additional courses that benefit your company? NO.
If you find that the course of study pursued by the applicant is not an asset your company needs, then you certainly have the right not to hire that applicant.
"Can't one be sued for discrimination for not hiring graduates of a certain college?"
Even better than not hiring a graduate from the University of Colorado would be to not send our children to such a school. I was already having second thoughts about UC because of the recent spate of alcohol related deaths of UC freshmen, so I don’t see Ward Churchill as a disease infecting the UC campus but rather as a symptom of a disease infecting the administrators, staff, faculty and students of the University of Colorado.
Until the University of Colorado cleans itself up, I will not send my children to it nor will I recommend it to others. Not only do we waste our money by sending our children to such a school, we endanger them by exposing them at such an early age to unsavory people like Ward Churchill.
"The simple answer to your question is no. Education is an allowable form of discrimination.
For instance, you have two applicants who have identical degrees. One received his degree from Princeton University, and the other from Parsons. You hire the candidate from Princeton based upon the reputation of the institution granting the degree. Can you be sued? NO.
Or- both applicants have identical degrees but one has a transcript reflecting additional study in areas that would be an asset to the company you are hiring for. Can you be sued for selecting the applicant that had taken the additional courses that benefit your company? NO.
If you find that the course of study pursued by the applicant is not an asset your company needs, then you certainly have the right not to hire that applicant."
Works for me! Thanks. :-D