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Alabama college offers $75,000 in trade scholarships to women only
College Fix ^ | JUNE 19, 2024 | Claire Bettag

Posted on 06/20/2024 7:54:29 AM PDT by george76

Dean says goal is to promote ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’

An Alabama college is offering $75,000 in scholarships for trade programs – but only to female students.

The goal “is to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in Gadsden State’s career technical programs,” according to a news release from the community college.

The list of “qualified programs,” include welding, construction technology, and civil engineering.

“This scholarship program is an initiative to get more women into manufacturing, construction, and transportation careers in order to help develop the workforce in our area,” Dean Alan Smith stated in the news release.

Smith did not respond to a voicemail on Monday that asked for comment on potential legal problems for the scholarship.

A spokesperson did not directly address questions about the legality of the program.

“The scholarship program closed on May 29 and all scholarship funds have been expended,” Director of Public Relations and Marketing Jackie Edmondson told The College Fix via email on Monday.

“Monies came from Federal Perkins funds that are provided to colleges to offer scholarship opportunities for special populations, including those who are non-traditional and/or underrepresented,” she said. Edmondson provided a link with more information.

“Individuals preparing for careers that are non-traditional for their gender,” is considered in the group of “non-traditional learners,” according to the information sheet.

She did not respond to a follow-up email on Monday that asked for comment on the legality of the program and what she meant by it being “closed.”

But Ed Barlett of SAVE Services said the program violates Title IX, a federal law that forbids discrimination on the basis of sex in higher education.

Gadsden State should either “discontinue the illegal program, or offer scholarships of a similar value to male students,” Bartlett told The Fix via email.

“Such illegal policies can be traced to Marxist ideology, which classifies men as ‘oppressors’ and women as ‘victims’, regardless of the fact that females now outnumber men in college enrollments,” Barlett ..

The college offers other scholarships that exclude on the basis of race or sex.

The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Scholarship “is awarded to a minority student enrolled in a Valley Street Campus program.”

Another scholarship gives “priority” to “African American students.”

The community college is recognized as a historically black college, but 71 percent of its students are white, according to 2023 enrollment data.

Programs that exclude on the basis of race or sex have been edited following criticism or federal complaints.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently made slight edits to its “women of color,” program following media attention and a civil rights complaint.

The Creative Regal Women of Knowledge program added that “participation is open to all students regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin,” to other language that promoted it only to black women.

The edit “does not alter the serious violations of the civil rights laws that have been taking place for years and were ongoing in the spring 2024 semester,” according to comments from Cornell Law School Professor William Jacobson.

His organization, the Equal Protection Project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation, filed the federal complaint.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; dei; die; diversity; division; education; exclusion; insanity; trades
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1 posted on 06/20/2024 7:54:29 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

Open discrimination is now okay?!


2 posted on 06/20/2024 7:57:15 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump Please Build the Wall, And Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone. End H1B!)
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To: george76

Someone remind me, when was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 repealed?


3 posted on 06/20/2024 7:58:35 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: george76

You can’t coerce someone into a physically demanding job if they lack the stature or desire to do so.


4 posted on 06/20/2024 7:58:52 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: george76

How about Trans Women?


5 posted on 06/20/2024 7:58:56 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Reno89519

Absolutely, it’s been codified for the betterment of some....


6 posted on 06/20/2024 7:59:03 AM PDT by TexasM1A (GLASS HAMAS)
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To: Reno89519

“Open discrimination is now okay?!”

Has been for a while now. White men are the devil incarnate, didn’t you know?


7 posted on 06/20/2024 7:59:52 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: george76

Is there a scholarship to get more male teachers into elementary schools? They’re flooded with women...


8 posted on 06/20/2024 8:00:01 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: CatOwner

They just change the standards, like they did with fireMEN...


9 posted on 06/20/2024 8:01:14 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: george76

If they become plumbers I want to attend the ‘How to show your butt-crack’ classes.............


10 posted on 06/20/2024 8:02:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: george76

Whatever happened to apprenticeships?


11 posted on 06/20/2024 8:03:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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I just found listings for apprenticeships for various trades here in NYS starting at $30-$40 an hour.

Starting. That’s NOT a typo and neither are the rates quoted.

Who the heck would want to waste time and money getting a bogus degree?!


12 posted on 06/20/2024 8:07:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: george76

Just plain wrong.


13 posted on 06/20/2024 8:12:38 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: george76

The name of the school (Gadsden State) should be in the FIRST SENTENCE. I hate what news writing has become.


14 posted on 06/20/2024 8:14:09 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (Stormy Daniels is a McGuffin)
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To: george76

What about tranny’s?


15 posted on 06/20/2024 8:15:04 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: jeffc
They just change the standards, like they did with fireMEN...

Same with the police standards. Only problem is those six foot walls are still there…

16 posted on 06/20/2024 8:33:31 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: george76

Trades huh? I would guess if all the male teachers would walk off the job, this would fold.


17 posted on 06/20/2024 8:37:18 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: george76
FWIW, I read the linked College Fix article, which itself links to an ACT Online brief, which itself links to the CARL D. PERKINS CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION ACT OF 2006.

On page 9 of that act it reads:
(33) NON-TRADITIONAL FIELDS.—The term ‘‘non-traditional fields’’ means occupations or fields of work, such as careers in computer science, technology, and other current and emerging high skill occupations, for which individuals from one gender comprise less than 25 percent of the individuals employed in each such occupation or field of work.

Basically, if I'm reading all of this correctly then the college can't take in this Perkins money unless it's used to train women to do jobs that for whatever reason most women choose not to do. Thus, I don't blame the college administrators, I blame the unconstitutional Perkins Act law that tells them this is the only way to get this federal money. That's the part that needs to change.

18 posted on 06/20/2024 8:37:28 AM PDT by Tell It Right (Galatians 6:14 -- May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ...)
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To: CatOwner

When did the left drop “Follow Your Passion” as the path to work happiness?

I worry about this in the military support and throughout society, including aviation mechanics, tricking, coercing, enticing women into fields that they never really wanted to do in the first place and while doing OK at the job, never loving it or excelling at it while taking a slot from males who might passionately love that kind of work and who used to seek it on their own, naturally.


19 posted on 06/20/2024 8:41:43 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Red Badger

The best way for anyone to show butt crack is to bend down and hunch over on the knees to work under a sink.


20 posted on 06/20/2024 8:44:18 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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