The University of Minnesota recently removed language excluding white students from applying for a summer research program after a discrimination complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
The university scrubbed the no-whites-allowed wording from its website amid national press coverage regarding the program and the May 19 civil rights complaint.
But the application still asks for demographic information.
“It’s unclear if that means the discrimination will continue under cover, or someone just failed to update that section,” Cornell Law School Professor William Jacobson, whose foundation filed the civil rights complaint, wrote on his Legal Insurrection blog.