From Campus Reform:
The U.S. Department of Education is officially investigating allegations that the University of Southern California excludes Male Students from certain educational opportunities.
The Title IX Investigation was launched in response to complaints submitted by a USC professor whose efforts have already instigated a similar investigation into Yale University.
According a January 28 letter obtained by Campus Reform, the department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has agreed to investigate four USC initiatives, including the school’s Smart Women’s Securities chapter and the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) chapter.
Both of these programs allegedly discriminate “by excluding male students from participation and providing opportunities for female students only,” according to the OCR letter, which notes that many female-only scholarships at USC are also under investigation.
The OCR agreed to launch an investigation after Kursat Christoff Pekgoz, a lecturer and Provost’s Fellow at USC, filed a Title IX complaint against the institution in October 2017. Though the OCR initially dismissed his complaint, Pekgoz filed an appeal, and the dismissal was overturned just two weeks after his January 18 interview with an OCR official.
Is it a valid point that such programs are discriminatory given that women now constitute a majority on college campuses?
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