DOJ's Letter to President S. B. Woo, 80-20 EF
John M. Gore, Acting Assistant Attorney General, wrote me on Nov. 1, 2017 stating that DOJ " . . . is committed
to ... robust enforcement of of federal prohibition on discrimination in education.
... for enforcement, among other laws, .... of
Title VI
of the Civil
Rights Act of
1964 ....
" (emphasis added) Mr. More was referring to a complaint filed by AACE against Harvard in May, 2015.
What is Title VI?
Title VI
is to p
revent discrimination by government agencies that receive
federal funds.
If an agency is found in violation
of Title VI, that agency may lose i
ts federal funding.
How
Title VI
Could Impact Harvard?
just
this year.
Two Examples of How Effective Title VI
Is
According to some legal scholars, the court decisions didn't have a big practical impact. It was only when schools started
getting big federal money AND the threat of losing it by remaining segregated that they
really started
to integrate.
2) See the 5th of the 6 comments
posted on Harvard's Crimson
editorial,
on Oct. 11, 2017, by law professor Mark Pickrell, Vanderbilt Univ. He is a
Harvard alumnus.
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"I've always thought it weird that Harvard has touted its
"race-
conscious"
admissions policies in light of the language of Title VI
and the Supreme
Court's decision in Bakke." - Mark Pickrell
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Does the Harvard Faculty Have a Role In Harvard's Governance?
If indeed Harvard is found to be in violation of Title VI, will
Harvard professors be unduly punished on account
of Harvard's "race-conscious" admissions? Does the Harvard faculty have
any role
in the
governance of Harvard? It's hard not to wonder, given the
faculty's
deafening
silence.
S. B. Woo
