Aaron Sibarium

1 month ago | freebeacon.com | Aaron Sibarium

Forty-four of the nation’s largest law firms were hit with a discrimination complaint on Monday alleging that they use an outside staffing agency to hire interns based on race, putting Big Law on track for another clash with the Trump administration. The complaint, filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, targets Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), a nonprofit that places minority students at elite firms the summer before their first year of law school.

1 month ago | freebeacon.com | Aaron Sibarium

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating whether Harvard University unlawfully hires faculty based on race and sex, arguing that the school’s own data provides evidence of discrimination. The probe is the latest federal action against the beleaguered university, which last month sued the Trump administration over its decision to freeze more than $2 billion in aid to the Ivy League school.

1 month ago | freebeacon.com | Aaron Sibarium

Former vice president Mike Pence offered a qualified defense on Thursday of the Trump administration’s assault on Harvard University, endorsing the decision to freeze federal aid but warning that revoking the school’s tax-exempt status could be a "slippery slope."In an interview with Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson, Pence said it was legitimate for the government to cut funds to universities that do not take steps to confront anti-Semitism.

1 month ago | freebeacon.com | Aaron Sibarium

UCLA medical school was sued for race discrimination on Thursday after whistleblowers alleged that the school holds black and Latino applicants to a lower standard than their white and Asian counterparts, the latest challenge for a beleaguered university already in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. The complaint is based on multiple Washington Free Beacon reports about the extent of racial preferences at the medical school.

1 month ago | freebeacon.com | Aaron Sibarium

The Department of Health and Human Services launched a civil rights investigation in March into the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. The probe, HHS said in a press release, would investigate whether the school’s admissions office discriminates based on race. Less than two weeks later, UCLA instructed admissions officers to do exactly that.