A professor sued Texas A&M University, alleging that a faculty fellowship program aimed at boosting diversity discriminates against white and Asian men. “Th...
A University of Texas at Austin is suing Texas A&M University, alleging that a faculty fellowship program aimed at boosting diversity discriminates against white and Asian men.A professor sued Texas A&M University, alleging that a faculty fellowship program aimed at boosting diversity discriminates against white and Asian men.
Lowery wants relief as well as for a court to appoint monitors to oversee Texas A&M’s hiring and diversity office. The professor is being represented by lawyers at America First Legal, a conservative nonprofit organization committed to “combating the left’s radical and lawless agenda” and is led by several former Trump administration officials.
Shortly after the Department of Education recognized the university as a Hispanic Serving Institution in July last year, McGowan sent out an email to Texas A&M deans announcing a new faculty hiring program under its Accountability, Climate, Equity, and Scholarship Faculty Fellows Program called ACES Plus — which exclusively targets “new mid-career and senior tenure-track hires from underrepresented minority groups, that contribute to moving the structural composition of our faculty towards...
In the lawsuit, Lowery claims the new faculty hiring program violates Title VI and Title IX — which prohibit all forms of race and sex discrimination at universities that receive federal funds — as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. That same semester, more than 53% of students were white, 22% were Latino, nearly 10% was Asian and about 3% was Black.
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