Buffalo Medical school hit with civil-rights complaint over summer program that prefers non-White applicants
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The Equal Protection Project filed a federal civil-rights complaint against SUNY's Buffalo School of Medicine's summer program that give preference to non-White students.
In a June 25 complaint, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) told the US Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights that the racial preference program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment as well as Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a writer on the breaking news team for Fox News Digital. You can reach her on Twitter at @s_rumpfwhitten.
"SUNY Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine is a quality institution that has strong anti-discrimination policies consistent with legal requirements. SUNY Buffalo should live up to its own standards and the law and stop treating people differently based on race and color," William Jacobson, president of the EPP, told Fox News Digital.
The university's STEP program "is a New York State grant-funded program that prepares secondary school students (in grades 7 to 12) who are either economically disadvantaged or historically underrepresented for entry into college and improves their participation rate in mathematics, science, technology, health-related fields and the licensed professions."
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