CEO Selects Third Annual Class of Civil Rights Fellows

Center for Equal OpportunityAbout CEOUSA

Dear Friends, It is with great joy that we introduce to you the 2024 class of CEO civil rights fellows. Between Monday, August 5 and Friday, August 9, 2024, fellows will participate in an intensive seminar-style program in Washington, D.C. This fellowship is a first-of-its-kind program within which fellows receive instruction and training in civil rights caselaw, enforcement practices, and public policy. For example, fellows will learn the history of major civil rights laws, become familiar with major Supreme Court decisions in this area, and learn about current controversies surrounding civil rights law and enforcement. The seminars will be led by law and policy experts, …

2024 CEO Civil Rights Fellowship Begins Accepting Applications

Center for Equal OpportunityAbout CEOUSA

It is with great joy that the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) announces and begins accepting applications today for its 2024 Civil Rights Fellowship. The program, which will take place between August 5-9, 2024 is intended for law students with an interest in a career in a public, private, or nonprofit setting where their instruction and training can be shared with the public, the courts, and/or through policy development. LEARN MORE Related posts: TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT CEO Launches Inaugural …

Center for Equal Opportunity Launches “After Affirmative Action Network”

Center for Equal OpportunityPress Releases, Racial Preferences

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                      Contact: Rudy Gersten (202) 886-2000Friday, November 10, 2023                                                      (Washington, D.C) The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) announced Friday the launch of the After Affirmative Action (AAA) Network to monitor compliance with the Supreme Court decisions last term outlawing the use of race in college admissions. The AAA Network will serve as a clearinghouse to gather and distribute information on how schools …

New Study Documents Racial and Ethnic Preferences in University of Maryland Admissions

CEO StaffDocuments, Education, Press Releases

(College Park, MD) A new study released today by the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) documents evidence of discrimination based on race and ethnicity in admissions at the University of Maryland at  College Park. African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latinos are admitted with significantly lower  undergraduate grade-point averages and SAT scores in the fall freshmen class of 2021 than whites and,  again to a lesser extent, Asians. The study suggests the University will have to make substantive  changes to its admissions procedures if it is to comply with the Supreme Court rulings in SFFA v.  Harvard and SFFA …

CEO Civil Rights Fellowship Begins

Rudy GerstenAbout CEOUSA

This week, CEO is hosting its second-annual Civil Rights Fellowship for aspiring lawyers with a series of activities and training in caselaw, enforcement practices, and public policy. The 2023 fellowship class includes ten law students from some of the best schools in the country: American University, Arizona State, Brigham Young University, George Mason, Georgia State, Southern University, Stetson, University of Miami, and the University of Wisconsin. The first of its kind program, spearheaded by CEO President and General Counsel Devon Westhill, is taking place here in Washington, D.C. We kicked things off with a discussion on post-Civil War constitutional amendments and major …

Victory! CEO Applauds SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action

Center for Equal OpportunityEducation, Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                      Contact: Rudy Gersten (202)886-2000Friday, June 29, 2023 Center for Equal Opportunity Applauds SCOTUS ruling on Affirmative Action (Washington, D.C) Today, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down college admissions programs that gave preference to black and Hispanic students at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, the Court held that preferential treatment based on race in college admissions violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Center for …

CEO Selects Second Annual Class of Civil Rights Fellows

Devon WesthillAbout CEOUSA

Dear friends, It is with great joy that we introduce to you the 2023 class of CEO civil rights fellows. Between Monday, August 7 and Friday, August 11, 2023, fellows will participate in an intensive seminar-style program in Washington, D.C. This fellowship is a first-of-its-kind program within which fellows will receive instruction and training in civil rights caselaw, enforcement practices, and public policy. For example, fellows will learn the history of passage of major civil rights laws, become familiar with major Supreme Court decisions in this area, and learn about current controversies surrounding civil rights law and enforcement. The seminars …

2023 CEO Civil Rights Fellowship Begins Accepting Applications

Center for Equal OpportunityAbout CEOUSA

It is with great joy that the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) announces and begins accepting applications today for its 2023 Civil Rights Fellowship. The program, which will take place between August 7-11, 2023 is intended for law students with an interest in a career in a public, private, or nonprofit setting where their instruction and training can be shared with the public, the courts, and/or through policy development. LEARN MORE Related posts: TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT CEO Launches Inaugural …

PRESS RELEASE: Supreme Court Hears Argument in Harvard and UNC Cases

Center for Equal OpportunityEducation, Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Devon Westhill(904) 683-6060 (Washington, D.C) This morning, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear from the lawyers arguing on both sides of the race preferences cases SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC. The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) and our staff helped write and then joined six amicus briefs in these cases urging the Supreme Court to take the cases and to overturn Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) which permitted the use of race in college admissions for the supposedly compelling benefits of campus racial diversity. Our briefs argued that race preferences are unconstitutional and …

CEO Selects Inaugural Class of Civil Rights Fellows

Center for Equal OpportunityAbout CEOUSA, Uncategorized

Dear friends, It is with great pleasure that we introduce to you the inaugural class of CEO civil rights fellows. Between Tuesday, August 9 and Friday, August 12, 2022, fellows will participate in an intensive seminar-style program in Washington, D.C. This fellowship will be a first-of-its-kind program within which fellows will receive instruction and training in civil rights caselaw, enforcement practices, and public policy. For example, fellows will learn the history of passage of major civil rights laws, become familiar with major Supreme Court decisions in this area, and learn about current controversies surrounding civil rights law and enforcement. The …