A legal advocacy group is urging the Trump Justice Department to probe a CUNY program designed to help Black men attending colleges for excluding and allegedly discriminating against other students…
The Equal Protection Project claims the CUNY program violates federal civil rights laws by giving preference to minority male students while shutting out others.
“It’s not a difficult case – CUNY explicitly is recruiting based on race and ethnicity and preferring certain racial and ethnic groups over others,” said William Jacobson, president and founder of the group, which filed a complaint with the Justice Department’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon. The mission of the Black Male Initiative is to bolster the enrollment, retention, grade point average and graduation rates of minority male students.
In 2012, the Obama Department of Education determined that the initiative was consistent with federal law.
“The discrimination in the program should have been stopped almost 15 years ago,” Jacobson said. “Only a legally ridiculous 2012 decision by the Obama Department of Education allowed the discrimination to continue. It is time for DOJ to correct this injustice. ”enrollment, retention, grade point average and graduation rates of minority male students in 22 senior and community colleges within the CUNY system.
In its complaint, EPP claims the program also violates state and city anti-discrimination laws. But since New York’s lawmakers have allocated millions of dollars over the years to fund BMI, Albany and City Hall won’t investigate. Legal group demands Trump admin probe CUNY’s Black Male Initiative, alleging discrimination against women and white students.
“For 21 years the CUNY Black Male Initiative has focused on improving the educational success of underrepresented students and is open to all students regardless of race, gender or national origin,” a CUNY spokesperson said. One CUNY source said Sunday the Male Initiative is a well-intended program to address the dearth of young minority men attending and graduating from colleges.
The group admitted in its complaint that the initiative has educational benefits, but they should be applied to all students who need assistance regardless of race, color or ethnicity.
“However, BMI’s goals, programming, and promotional materials repeatedly identify favored racial and ethnic groups and communicate that the program is intended for those groups,” the complaint said. “If CUNY had a ‘White Male Initiative’ structured similarly to BMI such race-based recruiting would not be tolerated much less funded and promoted. It is up to DOJ to ensure that the civil rights laws are enforced in a race-neutral manner.
”The complaint said such discreet race-based or ethnic programs are on even shakier ground now after the US Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that college and university affirmative action programs that consider race a factor in admissions
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