MIT Program Open Only To “Women of Color” Challenged By Equal Protection Project As Violating Civil Rights Laws
According to an informational page on MIT’s website, The CRWN “is designed for women of color” 3 and its mission is “to inspire undergraduate women of color to move confidently as visionaries, grounded in excellence, empathy, and support for one another.”4 The seven-page complaint was filed with the Boston office of the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights by the Equal Protection Project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation based in Barrington, R.I., according to a copy the group shared with the Globe.
Jacobson’s foundation was launched in 2019 as an outgrowth of his Legal Insurrection blog began in 2008, according to A conservative group is filing a federal civil rights complaint against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claiming a program at the Cambridge school discriminates based on both gender and race.The complaint says the program discriminates against men and people who are white because it only allows undergraduate women of color to apply.
The program’s website says its mission is: “ … to inspire undergraduate women of color to move confidently as visionaries, grounded in excellence, empathy, and support for one another.” “The CRWN eligibility requirements are openly racially and sexually discriminatory,” said William Jacobson, founder of the Equal Protection Project. “Regardless of the purpose of the discrimination, it is wrong and unlawful.
“Unfortunately, many colleges and universities have bought into the ‘anti-racist’ activism claim that the remedy for past discrimination is current discrimination,” Jacobson added. “Such ‘reverse-racism’ and ‘reverse-sexism’ is just racism and sexism, and it is not the answer.”“MIT needs to come up with a remedial plan to compensate students shut out of the CRWN due to discrimination,” he added.Equal Protection Project president William A.