Litigation Update: Investigating Title VI and Title IX Complaints

Center for Equal OpportunityRacial Preferences

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 supplemented Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include, in addition to barring discrimination on the ground of race, color, or national origin, sex as a protected class in federally funded education programs or activities. The purpose of enacting Title IX was to ensure that everyone, regardless of sex, would enjoy a discrimination-free educational experience. In the years since their enactment, observers have accused colleges and universities of violating Titles VI and IX in various ways. Many Title IX concerns have involved single-sex, female-only programs, scholarships, awards, fellowships, camps, …

CEO Launches Inaugural Civil Rights Fellowship

Center for Equal OpportunityCulture & Society

It is with great joy that the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) announces and begins accepting applications today for its NEW Civil Rights Fellowship. The program, which will take place between Tuesday, August 9 – Friday, August 12, 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. All incoming fellows will be provided a $500 stipend. Lodging and meals will be provided, and travel expenses will be reimbursed. CEO welcomes law students to apply who have …

CEO in the News – 2022-2024

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Not DEI but MNO on MLK Day National Review – 1/14/24 Sexual assault lawsuit threatens Hillsdale’s Title IX exemption The Collegian- 1/17/24 Nonprofit Center for Equal Opportunity Launches “After Affirmative Action Network” FedSoc – 1/11/24 How U.S. Public Schools Teach Antisemitism The FP – 12/19/23 Will the Ban on Affirmative Action Hurt Diversity? Look to California EdWeek – 12/4/23 Watchdog or Lapdog? Law & Liberty – 11/29/23 Think tank will ‘monitor compliance’ with affirmative action ban The College Fix – 11/28/23 A Newspaper Giant Tried to Diversify it’s staff. White workers sued. Washington Post – 10/29/23 Devon Westhill Interview O’Conner …

CEO Applauds Supreme Court Grant of Affirmative Action Cases

Center for Equal OpportunityPress Releases

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 …

Keeping up with CEO

Devon WesthillCulture & Society, Keeping Up with CEO

Dear friends, Happy New Year! We at the Center for Equal Opportunity hope you had a joyous holiday season to cap off 2021, and that you are now ready—as we are—to jump into the adventures that await in 2022. Today we celebrate one of our nation’s heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. While a complex public figure, Dr. King persistently advocated for justice, righteousness, and the realization of the American promise of equal treatment under the law. In the face of the fiercest racial bigotry and social and political opposition, Dr. King made possible the foundation for an American racial and civil …

Justices have two chances to end colleges’ racial discrimination

Devon WesthillEducation

This Op-Ed Originally appeared on the Washington Examiner The Supreme Court has before it two ideal vehicles finally to end racial preferences in college admissions. For the sake of socially and economically disadvantaged minorities, the court should courageously end the practice known as affirmative action. One case challenges Harvard’s use of race in admissions decisions. Although a private institution, Harvard receives federal funding and, therefore, is prohibited by civil rights law from discriminating on the basis of race. The other case challenges the University of North Carolina’s use of race in admissions as prohibited by civil rights law and the …

CEO in the News – Archive

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CEO joins Pacific Legal Foundation to file Supreme Court amicus brief

Devon WesthillEducation

Dear friends and supporters, I am pleased to report to you that CEO joined a Supreme Court amicus brief filed yesterday by our friends at the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF). The brief supports petitioners in the case of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina in their challenge to the university’s use of racial preferences in admissions. The brief builds on the arguments made in a separate brief submitted by PLF, and joined by CEO, in the racial preferences case of SFFA v. Harvard. Our hope is that the Supreme Court will agree to hear these cases together and ultimately, …

Support CEO on #GivingTuesday

Linda ChavezUncategorized

Dear CEO friends and allies, As you may already know, today is “Giving Tuesday.” The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) is the only organization in America dedicated to fighting against race-based public policy 24/7, and we are enjoying one of our busiest years yet. But before I ask for your continued support, I wanted to share with you just a few highlights of our most recent work. Critical Race Theory. Once an obscure academic endeavor, CRT has burst into national mainstream consciousness. CEO has joined the fierce resistance to CRT’s tenet of race conscious equity of outcome by debating the …

On the Theory and Practice of Equality: A Critical Race Theory Backgrounder

Althea NagaiCulture & Society

Executive Summary: Recent education conflicts have pitted parents and activists against school boards and administrations. Protestors have accused school districts of grounding K-12 schooling in Critical Race Theory (CRT), teaching anti-Western, anti-American history and civics, and dividing people into oppressors (whites) and oppressed (minorities). But CRT defenders say that CRT is an academic field, taught in law schools, and not what protestors say it is. This backgroundercovers the main principles of CRT as expressed by its scholars. CRT scholars have explicitly disparaged the notion of colorblindness and equal treatment under the law. Instead, CRT emphasizes the disparate impact of law …