Harvard University on Sunday was slapped with a federal complaint over a “race-restricted” scholarship program that is limited to students of color, The Post has learned.
The complaint faults the Ivy League institution for actively promoting and supporting the Union Scholars summer scholarship program, which is designated for “students of color” and gives 10 applicants a $4,800 stipend and $6,000 need-based assistance.
“What doesn’t Harvard understand about not discriminating based on race?” said William Jacobson, president and founder of the Equal Protection Project, a legal watchdog that filed the complaint, to The Post.
“The US Supreme Court told Harvard to stop; now it’s up to the Department of Justice to make Harvard stop,” said Jacobson, an alum of Harvard.
Harvard was at the center of a landmark case in 2023 when the US Supreme Court determined that affirmative-action programs for admission are unconstitutional.
The Equal Protection Project filed its complaint about racism in the scholarship program with the Justice Department’s Division of Civil Rights.
