The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill recently amended an academic program to accept applicants of all races as the result of a civil rights complaint.
Initially the Fellowship for Exploring Research in Nutrition program, or FERN, was only open to undergrads “from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) populations.”
However, after the complaint was filed by the watchdog group Do No Harm, university officials amended the application to eliminate any wording about the race of applicants.
“Within 24 hours of receiving the courtesy copy of my complaint, UNC scrubbed the website and changed the eligibility requirements to be more ‘inclusive,’” Mark Perry, University of Michigan Flint emeritus professor and a senior fellow at Do No Harm, told The College Fix via email March 6.