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Justice Department Sues Yale Claiming Admissions Discrimination Against Whites And Asian-Americans

2020-10-10

Harvard, Princeton, and now Yale. Interesting.

[Forbes] The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Yale University, alleging it violated civil rights law by discriminating against white and Asian-American students in its admissions process, in the latest step President Donald Trump’s administration has taken in opposition to affirmative action.

KEY FACTS

The DOJ filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal district court in Connecticut, where it claimed that Yale’s "oversized, standardless, intentional use of race has subjected domestic, non-transfer applicants to Yale College to discrimination on the ground of race."

Yale has been under investigation by the DOJ since 2018, after a complaint was filed by the Asian American Coalition for Education claiming discrimination in Yale’s admissions process.

In August, the DOJ said its probe found that race was a "determinative factor" in hundreds of admissions decisions per year, and it asked that Yale submit a plan within two weeks describing how it would eliminate race and national origin from its admission process.

Yale President Peter Salovey responded at the time by saying that Yale would not comply, arguing that the DOJ’s demand would actually put the university at odds with existing law.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the lawsuit Thursday.

Yale did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Forbes.

CRUCIAL QUOTE
"Because Yale claims that its race discrimination is necessary to admit sufficient numbers of racially-favored applicants, mostly Black and Hispanic applicants, Yale signals that racially-favored applicants cannot compete against Asian and White applicants," the lawsuit said, according to the Journal. "This kind of race discrimination relies upon and reinforces damaging race-based stereotypes."

KEY BACKGROUND
In 2017, the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ announced it would investigate and file lawsuits against universities using race as part of admissions. That move was followed up in 2018, when the Trump administration rescinded a policy put in place under President Barack Obama calling for race to be a considering factor in college admissions. The Trump administration has also pushed to end the consideration of race in admissions at Harvard University, while the Department of Education sent a letter to Princeton University last month demanding documents in order to inspect whether the elite university engages in discriminatory practices.

BIG NUMBER
7%. That’s Yale’s acceptance rate. Yale is ranked third in the most recent edition of Forbes "Top Colleges" list.

Posted by:746

#7 that might help pay off 0.4 seconds of the national debt.

And they’ll think twice and thrice before applying for more funds so long as Donald Trump is in office. Let ‘em get donations from the Progressive multibillionaires instead.

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-10 14:00

#6 Some hefty fines from lots of juicy endowment money that might help pay off 0.4 seconds of the national debt.

Posted by: Clem 2020-10-10 12:40

#5 No Federal money for the Racist universities practising affirmative apartheid!

Merit only admissions! (Can look at donor child admission next too).

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-10-10 12:38

#4 Love it... nail their balls to the wall. Force them to give back the millions in federal research dollars they've grabbed

Posted by: Angaving Gurly-Brown7491 2020-10-10 12:27

#3 US Justice Department sues Yale over 'discrimination against white and Asian American applicants' after accusing the university of 'racially balancing' its classes

Posted by: Skidmark 2020-10-10 08:35

#2 Weren't we treated by a Big Ivy league President admitting his Univ. had practiced Racial applicant selection and placement for generations just a month ago? But did his Univ. also accept Federal money then for falsely stating they were adhering the Federal Educations Civil Rights Guidelines?

The DOJ should either have the Univ. President and Board up on Perjury, fraud & civil Rights charges.

Or, in front of a Senate Committee presenting an OFFICIAL Retraction read under under oath by the President and each Board member individually. A statement DOJ pre-approved that states their racial statements were false and made purely to incite and support a false political narrative.

Posted by: NN2N1 2020-10-10 08:20

#1 The real racists are the ones they see in the mirror every morning.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-10-10 06:10

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