A conservative Cornell law professor is calling out Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and a scholarship for being what he believes to be racist against white and straight people. William Jacobson told the Illinois Times, that he has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights over the Tracey Meares scholarship. The school scholarship gives students with backgrounds underrepresented in medicine a thousand dollars in their fourth year. The SIU scholarship was created in 2022, and is available to non-white and Asian students along with anyone in the LGBTQ+ community. The complaint is one of many filed in similar circumstances across the country with groups like, The Legal Insurrection Foundation launching attacks on diversity initiatives.
Southern Illinois University Receives Backlash From Conservative Lawyer Over Scholarship Program
Feb 16, 2024 | 5:37 AM