{"id":2318489,"date":"2024-08-02T22:42:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T02:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-state-university-quietly-removes-race-requirement-after-civil-rights-complaint\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T22:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T02:51:40","slug":"ohio-state-university-quietly-removes-race-requirement-after-civil-rights-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-state-university-quietly-removes-race-requirement-after-civil-rights-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State University Quietly Removes Race Requirement After Civil Rights Complaint"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fohio-state-university-quietly-removes-race-requirement-after-civil-rights-complaint%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=2318489&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--><p>The Ohio State University\u200b College\u2063 of \u200bMedicine Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program has eliminated a race-based admission requirement from\u200d its website following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-organization-plans-to-provide-parents-with-tools-to-combat-woke-indoctrination-in-schools\/\" title=\"New Organization Plans To Provide Parents With Tools To Combat \u2018Woke Indoctrination\u2019 In Schools\">civil rights complaint<\/a> in October 2022. Originally, the \u200bprogram stipulated that applicants must belong to specific \u200cracial \u200cgroups \u2063to qualify for National Institutes of\u200c Health (NIH) funding. However,\u2064 after evaluating\u200d the complaint, the\u2063 institution silently revised its criteria in\u200b late 2023 to focus on applicants who have faced obstacles in gaining research experience. The\u200d civil rights group Do No Harm argued\u2064 that the original criteria violated Title \u2063VI of\u2062 the Civil Rights Act by enabling racial discrimination. Their senior fellow remarked\u2063 that the changes reflect\u200c a victory in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-ex-border-chief-blames-him-for-border-disaster\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Ex-Border Chief Blames Him for Border Disaster\">ongoing legal efforts<\/a>\u2063 to prevent racial discrimination in medical \u2063school\u2062 admissions. The updated\u2063 requirement emphasizes merit over racial background, aligning the program with NIH&#8217;s initiatives for diversity without explicit racial preferences.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section>\n<p>A prominent medical school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-kennedy-rages-after-discovering-what-usa-today-quietly-did-to-his-op-ed-on-transgenders\/\" title=\"Senator Kennedy Furious Over USA Today&#039;s Silent Edit to His Transgender Op-Ed\">silently removed<\/a> a race requirement from a National Institutes of Health-funded research program on its website following an October 2022 civil rights complaint alleging the admission criteria were illegal and discriminatory.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio State University College of Medicine Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program, which is designed to equip pre-medical students with additional research experience to bolster their medical school applications, originally stated that applicants must be &ldquo;Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander&rdquo; to qualify for NIH funding through the program but silently <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230714092153\/https:\/\/medicine.osu.edu\/education\/discovery-prep\/admissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed<\/a> the requirement sometime in late 2023 after Do No Harm&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-accused-egregious-violation-federal-law-campaign-finance-complaint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complaint<\/a> was filed.<\/p>\n<p>The program&rsquo;s website now <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.osu.edu\/education\/discovery-prep\/admissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">replaces<\/a> the requirement with one stating applicants must &ldquo;have encountered obstacles to gaining sufficient experience and the skills necessary for admission into a research-centric PhD graduate program in their chosen field of study.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Do No Harm&rsquo;s complaint alleged &ldquo;unlawful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/journalist-sues-nfl-racial-discrimination-alleges-offensive-comments-cowboys-bills-owners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racial discrimination<\/a> in violation of Title VI&rdquo; of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ohio State and NIH changed their eligibility requirements sometime last year to remove all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-halts-biden-administration-program-that-discriminated-against-white-farmers-saying-lawsuit-could-be-successful\/\" title=\"Federal Judge Halts Biden Administration Program That Discriminated Against White Farmers, Saying Lawsuit Could Be Successful\">race-based criteria<\/a> while our complaint was being evaluated, either in response to legal challenges like ours or to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-to-detail-edf-nationalisation-plan-by-july-19-shares-suspended\/\" title=\"France to detail EDF nationalisation plan by July 19, shares suspended\">avoid legal challenges<\/a> in the future,&rdquo; Mark J. Perry, senior fellow at Do No Harm, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/donoharmmedicine.org\/2024\/08\/01\/ohio-state-complaint-racial-discrimination-medical-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The favorable outcome at Ohio State is one more victory for Do No Harm&rsquo;s ongoing legal challenges to stop U.S. medical schools from illegally discriminating based on race, color, or national origin in violation of Title VI.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The program also originally listed that applicants from &ldquo;disadvantaged backgrounds&rdquo; or who have a disability would be considered, according to an archived version of its website.<\/p>\n<p>The program is guided by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/testimony-top-public-health-official-covid-made-public-undermines-everything-fauci-said\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Institutes of Health<\/a>, the government medical research agency led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which openly advertises its diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/about-nih\/nih-wide-strategic-plan-diversity-equity-inclusion-accessibility-deia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">initiatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our future healthcare professionals should be chosen based on being the best and brightest students &ndash; not on whether they&rsquo;re willing to sign a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DEI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DEI<\/a> statement or pledge.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepGregMurphy?\">@RepGregMurphy<\/a>&lsquo;s EDUCATE Act will restore merit (and sanity) to our medical schools. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gynf5o7BdM\">pic.twitter.com\/Gynf5o7BdM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Do No Harm (@donoharm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donoharm\/status\/1771548714118574425?\">March 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;NIH encourages institutions to diversify their student and faculty populations to enhance the participation of individuals from groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical, clinical, behavioral and social sciences,&rdquo; the website&rsquo;s diversity <a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-20-031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> says.<\/p>\n<p>The original page quoted directly from the NIH&rsquo;s definition of &ldquo;underrepresented groups in biomedical research,&rdquo; but now only briefly mentions the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint was referred to the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services on July 30, but Do No Harm has declared the issue resolved in light of the program&rsquo;s updated website.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Beyond being unlawful and immoral, practicing racial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/musk-rips-diversity-equity-inclusion-discrimination-proclaims-dei-must-die\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discrimination<\/a> significantly compromises medical schools&rsquo; primary mission to properly educate graduate students free from divisive racial ideology.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The best way to recruit, train, and develop talented physicians and scientists is to prioritize merit and not race,&rdquo; Perry said in a statement following the program&rsquo;s update.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State University and NIH did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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The Ohio State University College of Medicine&#8217;s Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program, aimed at providing pre-medical students with extra research experience to enhance their medical school applications, initially required applicants to be &#8220;Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander&#8221; to qualify for NIH funding. However, this requirement was quietly removed in late 2023 following the complaint from Do No Harm. The program&#8217;s website now states that applicants must &#8220;have encountered obstacles to gaining sufficient experience and skills necessary for admission into a research-centric PhD graduate program in their chosen field.&#8221; Do No Harm&#8217;s complaint accused the program of &#8220;unlawful racial discrimination in violation of Title VI&#8221; of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits race-based discrimination. Mark J. Perry, senior fellow at Do No Harm, noted that both Ohio State and NIH changed their eligibility criteria last year to eliminate all race-based requirements while evaluating the complaint\u2014likely as a response to legal challenges like theirs or as a precaution against future legal issues. Perry described this outcome as another success for Do No Harm\u2019s efforts to combat illegal racial discrimination by U.S. medical schools under Title VI.<\/p>\n<p>The original program also indicated that applicants from &#8220;disadvantaged backgrounds&#8221; or those with disabilities would be considered based on an archived version of its website. This initiative is overseen by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which promotes diversity and inclusion within its programs but has faced scrutiny regarding how it implements these initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Perry emphasized that selecting future healthcare professionals should focus on merit rather than adherence to diversity statements or pledges. He expressed hope that legislation like Rep Greg Murphy\u2019s EDUCATE Act would restore meritocracy within medical schools.<\/p>\n<p>The NIH encourages institutions to diversify their student and faculty populations but has shifted its messaging away from specific definitions related directly to underrepresented groups in biomedical research since the initial complaint was filed.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services received this case on July 30th, Do No Harm considers it resolved due to changes made on the program\u2019s website. Perry concluded by stating that racial discrimination undermines medical education&#8217;s core mission and stressed prioritizing merit over race when recruiting talented physicians and scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State University and NIH did not respond immediately when asked for comments regarding these developments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2318490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ohio-State-University-program.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33274,35136,37071,37072],"class_list":["post-2318489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-education-policy","tag-ohio-state-university","tag-race-requirement"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Ohio-State-University-program.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2318490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}