{"id":1982618,"date":"2023-07-25T19:37:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-faces-federal-civil-rights-investigation-over-legacy-admissions\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T19:39:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:39:14","slug":"harvard-faces-federal-civil-rights-investigation-over-legacy-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-faces-federal-civil-rights-investigation-over-legacy-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard under investigation for legacy admissions&#8217; civil rights violation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharvard-faces-federal-civil-rights-investigation-over-legacy-admissions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1982618&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Department of Education Investigates Harvard \u200bUniversity&#8217;s\u200b Legacy Admissions<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Education has launched \u200da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-announces-investigation-into-andrew-brown-jr-shooting\/\" title=\"FBI Announces Investigation Into Andrew Brown Jr. Shooting\">federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">civil rights<\/a> investigation<\/a> into Harvard University\u200c over its legacy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-justice-department-scraps-investigation-into-yales-discriminatory-admissions-process\/\" title=\"Biden Justice Department Scraps Investigation Into Yale\u2019s Discriminatory Admissions Process\">admissions practices<\/a>, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Harvard \u2063and barred the consideration of \u200brace in college \u200dadmissions.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Department of Education confirmed to the Washington Examiner\u200b on Tuesday that the department had launched \u2064an investigation into the \u200dIvy League school under the provisions of \u200bTitle VI of the Civil Rights Act.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Office \u200cfor Civil Rights can confirm that \u200dthere is an open investigation of Harvard \u200dUniversity under\u2062 Title\u2064 VI of the Civil Rights Act\u200d of 1964,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;We do not comment on\u200b open investigations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The investigation was opened \u200cin response to a complaint filed by Lawyers for Civil Rights\u2063 Boston, \u200cwhich said that Harvard&#8217;s practice of legacy\u200c and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-faces-federal-civil-rights-investigation-over-legacy-admissions\/\" title=\"Harvard under investigation for legacy admissions' civil rights violation.\">donor admissions \u200coverwhelmingly advantaged white applicants<\/a>, to the disadvantage of well-qualified minority applicants.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Qualified and highly deserving applicants of color are harmed as a result, as admissions slots are given instead to\u200d the overwhelmingly white applicants who benefit from Harvard\u2019s legacy \u2062and donor preferences,&#8221; the organization said \u2064in a press release this month.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a letter to Lawyers for \u2064Civil Rights Boston, the department&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights said\u200c that while it\u200c had opened an \u2062investigation into the\u2064 university, &#8220;opening the complaint for investigation in no way implies that\u200d OCR has\u2062 made a \u2064determination on the merits of \u2064the \u200dcomplaint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The federal investigation comes weeks after the \u200dU.S. Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action, or considering an applicant&#8217;s race\u2062 as \u200ca factor\u200b in admissions decisions,\u200d was \u200billegal under federal law. The ruling stemmed from a \u2063group of Asian students who sued Harvard, alleging the elite university was limiting the admission of\u200b Asian applicants.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Harvard spokeswoman\u2064 Nicole Rura said that since the court&#8217;s ruling, \u200cthe university has been &#8220;reviewing&#8221; its admissions practices\u2063 &#8220;to assure compliance with the \u200dlaw and \u200bto \u200ccarry forward Harvard\u2019s longstanding commitment to welcoming students of extraordinary talent and promise who come from a wide range of \u200cbackgrounds, \u200bperspectives, and life experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our review includes examination\u200d of a range of data \u200band information, along with learnings from Harvard\u2019s efforts over the past decade \u2062to strengthen our ability to attract and support a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-still-seeking-diverse-student-population-despite-scotus-ruling\/\" title=\"Harvard remains committed to diverse student body despite SCOTUS ruling.\">diverse intellectual community<\/a> that is fundamental to our pursuit of academic excellence,&#8221; Rura continued. &#8220;As this \u2062work continues, and moving forward,\u200d Harvard remains\u200d dedicated to opening \u200cdoors to opportunity and \u2062to\u200c redoubling our efforts to encourage students from many\u200b different backgrounds to apply for admission.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Education is investigating Harvard University&#8217;s legacy admissions practices. This comes after the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling against Harvard, which prohibits the consideration of race in college admissions. 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