‘Defiance Over Compliance’: Harvard Med School Continuing To Use Racial Preferences, Complaint Says

America First Legal (AFL) filed a complaint for civil rights to the Ministry of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday alleging that the Harvard Medical School continues to use racial preferences for admission despite federal law.

The complaint alleys that Harvard is committed to a “calculated effort” to seem that he complied with the law despite the adoption policies which allow him to discriminate, such as “racial attorney integrated in the criteria of holistic revision and moderate Dei [diversity, equity and inclusion] Cadres – All designed to produce predetermined demographic results. Harvard would have renamed DEI efforts by using euphemisms to appear neutral but always maintaining his commitment to diversity, said AFL.

“Formerly considered to be the Order of American higher education, Harvard today is better known to challenge the Constitution than to maintain it,” said the AFL complaint. “Rather than dismantling his practices of” discrimination, exclusion and intolerance “if necessary, Harvard has rather chosen to rename, to recondition and to redeploy the same illegal practices under new euphemisms. He chose distrust of compliance. ”

The Harvard Medical School did not immediately respond to the request for comments from the Daily Call News Foundation.

A moving truck is in front of Eliot House on the Harvard University campus on March 12, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Meyer / Getty Images)

While Harvard claims to have closed his offices, he seems to have simply reworked the staff to new offices in the university. The University’s website also uses terms such as “culture of belonging”, “expand and support programs” and “greater opportunities to engage through the difference” as attorney for its original mission, AFL says.

The Harvard Faculty of Medicine has adopted similar methods to maintain its commitment to Dei, according to AFL.

The Harvard Medical School office was also renamed while maintaining the same leadership and a slightly modified mission statement, according to the complaint. The school has also integrated “identity -based ideological instructions” in all of its study programs, such as “health equity” and “sexual and gender minorities”.

The process of “holistic admissions” of the school would also have “used prompts based on structured diversity to cause racial and identity -based information on an applicant in a way that allowed admissions to discern the race and other protected characteristics”, according to AFL.

Harvard also “built a parallel pipeline and concerned about the race to identify, recruit and advance individuals from his favorite demographic categories” which begins “from the level of the college,” said the company. Many of its programs specifically look for “under-represented minorities and / or disadvantaged individuals” as an indicator of race and sex, which allows it to recruit the desired student body as soon as possible.

These admission proxies are used in Harvard medicine residence programs, AFL noted.

The university even uses research subsidies funded by the federal government to maintain Dei in the medical field, prioritizing the recruitment based on breed, according to the complaint.

The Trump administration has already targeted Harvard for a multitude of reasons, including uncontrolled anti -Semitism on the campus, having not properly disclosed the sources of foreign funding and illegal dei practices. Harvard has lost billions of dollars, has been returned to the DOJ and risks losing its foreign students and its accreditation status. (Related: Harvard president would have brushed the settlement talks in favor of the legal battle)

AFL urges the Doj to extend its investigation into the Harvard faculty of medicine.

Despite the Supreme Court in 2023 declaring that positive action policies are illegally discriminatory, many universities have tried to circumvent the decision by passing explicit racial considerations to more subtle recruitment methods based on the race. The University of California of Los Angeles (UCLA) has published its method, which included the use of students, staff and former students to personally contact minority students, organize events for “under-represented groups” and consult “holistic” applications rather than in separate segments.

Other eminent universities have followed its traces. The UCLA remains under survey by the DoJ and risks losing millions of people in federal subsidies after the administration said that the school “engages in racism, in the form of illegal positive action”.

The Ministry of Education (ED) has clearly indicated that racial preferences, whether used explicitly or by proxies, will not be tolerated and that schools accused of not having respected by federal law on civil rights may be studied and punished. The Ministry of Health and Social Services (HHS) has also specified that even policies that “appear in the neutral face” but “work as proximity to breed -based decision -making” are not in accordance with federal law.

Several accreditors and associations of the School of Medicine have recently changed or fully suspended their requirements for member institutions.

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