Federal Civil Rights Inquiry Targets Berkeley Resource Centers and Outside Scholarships
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation involving three UC Berkeley student-resource programs and two outside scholarships, The Daily Californian reported Thursday. The inquiry follows a February complaint by the Legal Insurrection Foundation.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 2 min read
Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco. Photo: Marincyclist / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation involving three UC Berkeley student-resource programs and two outside scholarships, The Daily Californian reported Thursday. The inquiry follows a February complaint by the Legal Insurrection Foundation.
The complaint targets the African American Student Development Office, Black Resource Center, Latinx Student Resource Center, African American Initiative Scholarship and Lloyd A. Edwards Scholarship. It alleges racial discrimination; those claims are not findings of wrongdoing.
Campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore told The Daily Californian that the resource centers are open to all students regardless of identity and that the scholarships are funded by external sources rather than university, state or federal funds. The original complaint provides the basis of the allegations, while the university disputes the characterization of its programs.
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