EXCLUSIVE: A nonprofit authorized group filed a civil rights grievance towards Northwestern College in Evanston, Illinois, Tuesday, after it introduced plans to supply 5 scholarships solely to “Palestinian” college students, allegedly discriminating towards the remainder of the scholar physique.
The Equal Safety Challenge of the Authorized Revolt Basis, based mostly in Rhode Island, is a company that fights for equal safety below the legislation and nondiscrimination by the federal government and towards racial discrimination of any type.
In keeping with a grievance filed with the U.S. Division of Training towards Northwestern, the varsity mentioned it was planning to discriminate based mostly on ethnicity and nationwide origin, violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The grievance particularly targets three members of the varsity’s high administration — President Michael Schill, Provost Kathleen Hagerty and Vice President for Scholar Affairs Susan Davis — after they issued a proper encampment settlement April 29, 2024, with a bunch of scholars and college who staged an unauthorized five-day anti-Israel protest and encampment on Deering Meadow at Northwestern.
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Underneath the settlement, Northwestern mentioned it plans to cowl the total value of attendance for 5 Palestinian college students who attend the varsity during their undergraduate careers.
The settlement additionally supplies for instant momentary area for [Middle East and North Africa] MENA/Muslim college students and a home for MENA/Muslim college students that’s conducive to group constructing as quickly as virtually doable, or someday after 2026.
“In violation of Title VI, the acknowledged dedication of the College to offer 5 scholarships solely to ‘Palestinian’ college students illegally excludes and discriminates towards non-Palestinian college students based mostly on their ethnicity, nationwide origin, and shared ancestry,” the grievance states.
“Moreover, the reservation of area and housing for ‘MENA/Muslim’ college students seems to be segregationist in nature, excluding no less than partly college students on the premise of ethnicity, nationwide origin, and shared ancestry.”
William A. Jacobson, president of the Authorized Revolt Basis and founding father of the Equal Safety Challenge, filed the grievance.
“Northwestern capitulated to the calls for of protesters who encamped with out authorization. Nevertheless, Northwestern had no authority to conform to discriminate on the premise of ethnicity, nationwide origin and shared ancestry to be able to get the encampment eliminated,” Jacobson mentioned. “Whether or not in scholarship or housing, Northwestern should deal with all college students equally. Political expediency isn’t any authorized excuse.”
Northwestern College didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for touch upon the civil rights grievance.
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Northwestern receives federal funds, making it topic to Title VI.
Title VI prohibits intentional discrimination on the premise of race, shade or nationwide origin in any program or exercise – or all college operations – that receives federal monetary help.
Jacobson famous the Workplace for Civil Rights has jurisdiction over the grievance.
“The Workplace for Civil Rights has the facility and obligation to analyze Northwestern’s function in collaborating in, sponsoring, supporting and selling the Encampment Settlement, and to discern whether or not Northwestern is partaking in such discrimination in its different actions,” the grievance states, including it additionally has the facility to impose remedial aid to carry the college accountable for its conduct.
Notably, the aid may very well be within the type of fines, the initiation of administrative proceedings and suspending or terminating federal monetary help.
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“Northwestern ought to instantly rescind these components of the settlement as [they] require Northwestern to discriminate,” Jacobson mentioned. “As a recipient of federal funding, Northwestern doesn’t have the choice of discriminating simply to make different issues go away.
“We name on Northwestern to make use of the funding it dedicated to discrimination by opening up these scholarships and housing to all college students, with out regard to ethnicity, nationwide origin or shared ancestry,” he added.
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