No White Faculty Allowed

Anthony PericoloEducation

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 …

Support CEO on #GivingTuesday

Linda ChavezKeeping Up with CEO

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 …

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 …

Will the Supreme Court reaffirm its decision to end race-based admissions?

Anthony PericoloEducation

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 …

Keeping Up with CEO

Rudy GerstenKeeping Up with CEO

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 …

CEO Challenging Discrimination at VA High School

Center for Equal OpportunityEducation

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 …

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 …

Terry Eastland, R.I.P.

Roger CleggKeeping Up with CEO

I met Terry Eastland soon after we had both joined the Justice Department during the Reagan administration in the early 1980s, so we were friends for almost exactly four decades. He and I were fellow Texans and appreciated not only Ronald Reagan but Southern cuisine together; to be sure, Terry’s expertise on barbecue in particular was deeper than mine, no doubt helped by the fact that his wife, Jill, was from North Carolina. Terry’s southern roots were manifest in other ways: He was devoted to the Atlanta Braves, and sold encyclopedias and/or Bibles door to door — I forget which, …

Devon Westhill and Jin Hee Lee on Supreme Court’s Recent Decisions on Affirmative Action

CEO StaffEducation

Devon Westhill and Jin Hee Lee talked about the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. This is part of a week long series looking at key 2022-23 Supreme Court cases. Related posts: Opening Statement of Devon Westhill House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Update on the Struggle against Universities’ Affirmative Discrimination Keeping up with CEO Good Briefs in the Harvard Case

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 …