Dr. Althea Nagai

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Senior Research Fellow In D.C. area for over 20 years, Althea Nagai, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Center for Equal Opportunity. She has conducted numerous statistical analyses on racial and ethnic preferences in higher education, including racial and ethnic preferences in undergraduate education at five public universities in Virginia, the University of Michigan, two Arizona universities, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two Ohio universities, and various law and medical schools. In addition, she has written two essays for CEO focusing on Asian Americans, “Too Many Asian Americans,” and “Harvard Investigates Harvard.” She has also has done work on other …

Suggested Reading on Civil Rights Issues

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Overview Two pieces from ScotusBlog discussing what the Supreme Court needs to do in the area of racial preferences, etc. http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/02/ending-racial-preferences/ http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/08/the-court-after-scalia-what-a-conservative-successor-to-justice-scalia-would-mean-for-affirmative-action/  Education Racial preferences in higher education:  These pieces discuss both why “diversity” should not be a “compelling interest” — and how the Court’s acceptance of it still leaves challenges to racial preferences quite possible.  https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/06/24/supreme-court-ruling-fisher-while-disappointing-narrow-one-essay  http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-fisher-symposium-no-compelling-interest-no-reason-not-to-say-so/ http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/09/symposium-getting-serious-about-racial-discrimination/ http://www.findlawimages.com/efile/supreme/briefs/02-241/02-241.mer.ami.ceo.pdf (CEO amicus brief in Grutter/Gratz) Race-based assignments in K-12 education: https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/05/bad-guidance-racial-preferences-roger-clegg/ Ending school desegregation decrees: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/osg/briefs/1990/01/01/sg900145.txt (DOJ amicus brief in last Supreme Court case to address this issue)   (law review article by a former colleague) Employment https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/10/lawsuits-wanted-roger-clegg/ https://ceousa.org/attachments/article/1116/George%20W%20Bush%20Retrospective%202009.pdf (see …

Harvard Investigates Harvard

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“Does the admissions process discriminate against Asians?” A new study by the Center for Equal Opportunity finds new evidence of bias against Asian American applicants applying to Harvard (Falls Church, VA) Well before the Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard for discrimination against Asian American applicants, the university’s Office of Institutional Research (OIR) looked into whether the school’s admissions process disadvantaged Asian Americans. The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) analyzes the OIR report data in a study released today: Harvard Investigates Harvard: Does the Admissions Process Disadvantage Asians? Dr. Althea Nagai, a research fellow at the Center for Equal Opportunity, …

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

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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   MARCH 16, 2015   Introduction Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Roger Clegg, and I am president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a nonprofit research and educational organization that is based in Falls Church, Virginia. Our chairman is Linda Chavez, and our principal focus is on public policy issues that involve race and ethnicity, such as civil rights, bilingual …

Too Many Asian Americans: Affirmative Discrimination in Elite College Admissions. (Harvard, MIT, Caltech)

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Last Friday, Students for Fair Admissions filed its motion for summary judgment against Harvard for its admissions discrimination against Asian-American applicants on the basis of race. You can read the motion and the various supporting documents here. Edward Blum, president of the organization, said, “Today’s court filing exposes the startling magnitude of Harvard’s discrimination against Asian-American applicants,” adding that it “definitively proves that Harvard engages in racial balancing, uses race as far more than a ‘plus’ factor, and has no interest in exploring race-neutral alternatives.” He also said, “We believe that the rest of the evidence will be released in the next …

Too Many Asian Americans

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AFFIRMATIVE DISCRIMINATION IN ELITE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS A new study by the Center for Equal Opportunity finds that elite schools often discriminate against Asian American applicants.        In recent years, Asian Americans applying to elite colleges and universities have asked whether admissions offices fairly treat submissions by students of Asian lineage. Scholars have found that Asian American applicants are less likely to be admitted compared to whites, African Americans, and Hispanics, even when statistically controlling for other variables including social class, gender, and extracurricular activities. It would seem at least possible that Asian American applicants are being discriminated against. …

US v Metcalf

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IDENTITY AND INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE The Center for Equal Opportunity (“CEO”) is a research and educational organization formed pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and devoted to issues of race and ethnicity.1 Its fundamental vision is straightforward: America has always been a multiethnic and multiracial nation, and it is becoming even more so. This makes it imperative that our national policies not divide our people according to skin color and national origin. Rather, these policies should emphasize and nurture the principles that unify us. E pluribus unum . . . out of many, one. These principles …

Terry Eastland

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Senior Fellow Eastland is an accomplished journalist who was editor of The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., before working in the Reagan administration as a speechwriter for Attorney General William French Smith and as director of public affairs for Attorney General Edwin Meese.  Eastland was later a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the editor of Forbes MediaCritic. In 2001, he became publisher of The Weekly Standard and, in 2013, an executive editor. He is now a contributing editor at the magazine.Eastland has published seven books, including two on race preferences, Counting by Race (1979) and Ending Affirmative Action (1996). “The Center has done …

Politicized external review panels as unguided “diversity” missiles: California university administrators remain ultra-slow learners

Stuart H. HurlbertDocuments

By Stuart H. Hurlbert Professor of Biology Emeritus, San Diego State University, San Diego CA, Contact: hurlbert@mail.sdsu.edu Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and insidious that a state bound to defend the equal protection of the laws must not allow them in any public sphere. – Thurgood MarshallLead Attorney in Brown vs. Board of Education, Supreme Court of the United States, 1954 [It] is neither race nor racism that bedevils American society, but rather that racial classification enjoys a privileged status in social studies. American society is being tied in painful knots by virtue of legislative, social scientific, …

CEO welcomes new Senior Fellow Terry Eastland

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     PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday September 5, 2017  CONTACT:    Roger Clegg (703) 442-0066 CEO welcomes new Senior Fellow Terry Eastland  (Falls Church, VA) The Center for Equal Opportunity today welcomed aboard Terry Eastland as a Senior Fellow. Eastland is an accomplished journalist who was editor of The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., before working in the Reagan administration as a speechwriter for Attorney General William French Smith and as director of public affairs for Attorney General Edwin Meese. Eastland was later a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the editor of Forbes MediaCritic. In 2001, …