Matt Lamb, assistant editor of The College Fix, says the University of Missouri's four campuses have been working with donors to revise scholarships that exclude white students, and in some cases Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans, to ensure they comply with federal law.
"These donors are welcome to set up a scholarship to honor their parents or other causes, but they can't honor their parents by excluding white people from applying for scholarships," Lamb submits.
Though Mizzou is correcting this discrimination, Lamb points out that a number of other colleges and universities will continue to blatantly disregard the law.
"There's unfortunately an idea out there in higher education and political circles that it's OK to discriminate against men, or it's OK to discriminate against white people, or it's OK to discriminate against Asians," he relays. "This is, in fact, what the affirmative action decision in 2023 was about."
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also generally forbids discrimination in higher education.
In Ohio, Attorney General Dave Yost (R) has asked public universities to pause their discriminatory scholarships as he contends with employees who have defied the ban on affirmative action.
