A civil rights group filed a complaint Friday against the University of Alabama (UA) for offering a race-based scholarship.
The university’s website shows it offers its “Norton-Textra Endowed Scholarship for Minority Students in English” only to African-American students pursuing English degrees, which the Equal Protection Project (EPP) alleges violates federal civil rights statutes and the Constitution’s equal protection guarantees.
“That a racially discriminatory scholarship exists at a major public university in a deeply ‘red’ state is surprising,” EPP founder William A. Jacobson told the DCNF. “It is time for higher education everywhere to focus on the inherent worth and dignity of every student rather than categorizing students based on identity groups.”
