All of CEO's past press releases.
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 …
(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 …
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 …
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 …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Devon WesthillMonday, January 24, 2022(904) 683-6060 (Falls Church, VA) Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in the consolidated cases of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC as the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) urged in the amicus briefs it joined in each case. This means that for the first time in years the Court will review the legality of race preferences in college admissions. CEO Chairman Linda Chavez said today: “These cases give lie to the notion that racial preferences hurt no one and redound only to the benefit …
(Falls Church, VA) On January 21, 2021, the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) welcomed Devon Westhill as its new president and general counsel. Immediately prior to his selection as president and general counsel of CEO, Westhill served as the top civil rights official at the United States Department of Agriculture. Westhill began his legal career as a criminal trial lawyer in Florida where his practice included defending clients accused of criminal offenses and university conduct violations, and those subjected to civil asset forfeiture. Westhill has also worked at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Federalist Society and the United States Department of Labor …
STUDY FINDS PREFERENCES IN ADMISSIONS AT FIVE VIRGINIA SCHOOLS Washington, DC, September, 2019 – A new study on the use of racial and ethnic preferences released today by the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) finds discrimination in admissions at five Virginia public universities: the University of Virginia, William & Mary, James Madison University, Virginia Tech, and George Mason University. CEO uncovered a significant amount of discrimination, particularly at the University of Virginia and William & Mary. Since its founding in 1995, CEO has obtained data from schools through state freedom-of-information laws, analyzed what we found, and released dozens of such …
“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, …
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. …
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, …
