Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke powerfully of America’s founding creed as a “promissory note” for equal opportunity for Americans of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. For those who oppose both racial discrimination and racial quotas, what is the fairest and freest path to equality? Related posts: The Immigration Impasse Why Racial Preferences Remain Wrongheaded Top Ten Reasons to Oppose Race Preferences in University Admissions 20 Bad Arguments
The Supreme Court’s majority opinion in the Students for Fair Admissions case has elevated the possibility of eliminating race-based policies in other important domains, like employment and federal contracting. Where will public interest law firms go next? Are there cases already on the docket in important jurisdictions? Related posts: HP Mandates Quotas 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 Freedom and Racial Equality at Freedom & Progress 2023 Keeping skin color and sex out of government contracting
As part of Philanthropy Roundtable’s True Diversity initiative, President and General Counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity Devon Westhill recently sat down with radio veteran Lee Habeeb for an episode of “Our American Stories,” a syndicated radio program and podcast that highlights “ordinary Americans who do extraordinary things.” Westhill frequently champions True Diversity, an equality-based, holistic framework for embracing diversity that values each person as a unique individual and empowers charitable organizations with the freedom and flexibility to advance their missions and help those in need. In this discussion, Westhill tells Habeeb the story of his mother, a white woman, who raised three …
At the University of Washington, civil rights laws have not stopped blatant racial discrimination in faculty hiring. This article originally appeared in The City Journal on Dec 6, 2023 by CEO Visiting Fellow Anthony Pericolo and Anita Kinney. A recent internal investigation into faculty hiring at the University of Washington reveals the exhaustive efforts that universities make to discriminate against white job applicants. After the university’s Department of Psychology identified a white candidate as best qualified for a tenure-track professor position in early 2023, the department’s Diversity Advisory Committee pressured the hiring committee to re-rank candidates in accordance with the methodology …
Dear friends, Today is Giving Tuesday and this has been the most important year in the more than quarter-century history of the Center for Equal Opportunity. As we continue our work opposing race-based policies by public institutions at all levels, we are asking for your help again. But first let me tell you about some of what we’ve been up to. As you know, the milestone Supreme Court affirmative action cases SFFA vs Harvard and SFFA vs North Carolina officially made illegal and unconstitutional the use of race in college admissions. This was a signature win for CEO and the most important …
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 …
This article original appeared on the Washington Examiner After the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that universities could not discriminate in college admissions based on race, top lawyers on the Left rushed to contain the fallout. Expressing that she was “disturbed” by the “deliberate overread of the recent court decisions,” President Joe Biden’s assistant secretary of education for civil rights, Catherine Lhamon, insisted that schools could grant race-based scholarships and host race-segregated events. And former Obama Solicitor General Don Verilli made it clear that if he has his way, K-12 schools can discriminate against white …
Dear friends, Before updating you on our recent activities, we’d like to express that we share with many of you our anger and sorrow over the horrific terrorist attack on Israeli civilians by Hamas. As many student groups and morally bankrupt campus leaders here at home rush to blame the victims of the terror attack and spread antisemitic propaganda, it’s important to state with no ambiguity that the Center for Equal Opportunity fully supports the nation of Israel and its right to defend itself from these barbaric acts of terrorism. Here’s our latest: STUDY ON RACIAL AND ETHNIC PREFERENCES AT …
The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) has filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court of the United States supporting petitioners in the case of Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board (the Board). The case involves a challenge to the racially discriminatory overhaul of the admissions practices at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia. In urging the Court to take the case, CEO explained that the Board has a long and sordid history of manipulating admissions practices at the elite magnet high school for racial purposes. Specifically, to lower the number of high-achieving …
(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 …
