Cases

On January 18, 2026, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against the University of California’s Office of the President, and California Community College Chancellor’s Office.   The allegations in the Complaint concern’s California’s “Puente Project,” which...Read More

On January 6, 2026, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against University of Tennessee, Knoxville (“UT”), “…for offering, administering, and promoting four (4) scholarships that discriminate on the basis of race, color,...Read More

On December 29, 2025, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division against Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) “regarding two of its officially sponsored student organizations and programs for “womxn” — Graduate Womxn in Physics (“GWIP”) and Graduate...Read More

On December 22, 2025, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division requesting they open an “…investigation into systematic discrimination within the Illinois public university system involving at least seventy-seven (77) scholarships and programs across seven...Read More

On December 7, 2025, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against Harvard University for “involvement in the Union Scholars Program (“Union Scholars”), a program run jointly by the American Federation of State,...Read More

On December 1, 2025, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against “the University of California, California State University, and California Community College systems, and one hundred and thirty-eight (138) participating California public...Read More

On November 20, 2025, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against “Lehigh University’s Advancing Future Faculty Development Postdoctoral Program (“Advancing Future Program”) that discriminates on the basis of race, color, national origin,...Read More

On November 17, 2025, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against Radford University (“Radford”), “…for offering, administering, and promoting two (2) scholarships that discriminate on the basis of race, color, and/or national...Read More

On November 7, 2025, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against University of California, Los Angeles (“UCLA”), “…for offering, administering, and promoting thirteen (13) scholarships that discriminate on the basis of race,...Read More

On October 30, 2025, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against University of California, Irvine for and its Samueli School of Engineering, “for adopting and promoting an unlawful racial minimum quota goal...Read More