Posted on 08/29/2024 8:37:15 AM PDT by CFW
The Department of Education is excluding Asians, whites, "Arabs and other Middle Eastern ethnicities … many Latinos and some Africans" from a $60 million program for students from "disadvantaged backgrounds" unless they meet a two-prong exception, a new lawsuit alleges.
The McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, named after the black scientist who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, awards grants to colleges to prepare undergraduates "for doctoral studies through involvement in research and other scholarly activities," with a goal of increasing PhDs "from underrepresented segments of society."
The eligibility page says "at least two-thirds of the participants must be low-income, potential first-generation college students," and the remaining "may be from groups that are underrepresented in graduate education."
The requirements are "racist and blatantly unconstitutional," the Young America's Foundation said in a press release.
Its student co-plaintiffs, the University of North Dakota's Avery Durfee and University of Wisconsin Madison's Benjamin Rothove, qualify for McNair in all respects but one, according to YAF: They're white.
A UND official told first-generation student Durfee she doesn't qualify because of her race and must also be low-income to meet the two-prong exception, while a UWM official told Rothove his race disqualifies him, full stop, since he's not low-income or first-generation.
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In what profession or business are women, blacks, gays, etc "under-represented"? It seems to me that the only group that is now "under-represented in any institution is whites, and especially white males.
The DoED is is the FIRST fed agency that needs to disappear forever. I recall Reagan calling for it back in the day, the only that has changed it’s a magnitude worse and it costs more.
the purest translation of “disadvantaged backgrounds” is “not as smart as the lowest qualified candidates”. amiright?
“at least two-thirds of the participants must be low-income, potential first-generation college students,”
I’d have qualified in most of 1975.
the remaining “may be from groups that are underrepresented in graduate education.”
I’ve long suspected Irish-Americans were a low percentage of graduate students.
“disadvantaged backgrounds”
Even when I was growing up, upstate New York was headed downward due to the awful weather.
The Department of Education is run by affirmative action DEI proponents. I agree with the Project 2025 that that rat’s nest needs to be obliterated as one look at our educational system under those in charge there has been an abject failure.
Handing a minority a PhD will not make them successful and the students qualifying, but excluded from PhD programs will probably still be successful.
I do believe private organizations can make a scholarship for any reason, including skin color, belief, sexual orientation—even for criminals. However, no government entity can play a part in these, funding or otherwise.
It is illegal, or should be so, for governments to do this for any non-merit reason.
Why do I say “merit?” It is due to it being bias-free, aside from any cheating that helped show that level of merit, falsely. Additionally, it is therefore available to all citizens, which must be a prerequisite for something from the government.
Any government program that gives away money is blatantly unconstitutional
Why did the title call out Jews specifically when so many others are negatively affected as well? Trying to get in on the bandwagon?
BTTT
BTTT
Probably because it's in the lawsuit. It also excludes non hispanic racial minorities in the western hemisphere. Brazil the most populous and a few Carribbean Islands. And Arabs.
I’m not sure why they said Jews in the headline, perhaps because it’s trendy and would get more clicks But I assume Jews as a group may be over represented in phD programs - though I think it’s prohibited to even ask on applications. As the poster above pointed out the rules seem to be carefully crafted. They don’t call out race or religion or origin specifically, but de facto race, religion, skin color etc become the deciding factor. Too many rich middle easterners in college, too many Asians, too many Africans nationals and too many Jews - along with whites (and unless they changed things Arabs and Jews are generally classified as white anyway so the “over representation” is exacerbated by mere classification categories). They seem to want Hispanics and poor African Americans to get the money. Poor whites not so much. African immigrants need not apply either.
It appears to be racial bias written to sound like it’s not.
Of course Jews need not apply. We already know everything/;-}
Don’t get a PhD. My father had one of those. Just educate yourself by reading and working in the real world, and speak with college age kids in the agora, without having sex with them, and lead them to question their underlying presumptions. Worked for Socrates, until they canceled him with some hemlock, that is.
I—a white male then from Arizona—was the first in my family to go to college.
But back then, they took no notice of “first generation” college students.
Now they make a big deal about it!
However, I did get into MIT as a resident of an under-represented state!
The Department of Education needs to be abolished it served no useful purpose let the states handle it as well as the abortion issue.
Let the citizens make the rules not the reprobates who make under the table cash deals.
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