The Equal Protection Project (EqualProtect.org) is a project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation devoted to fighting unlawful discrimination in all forms. While most of our cases have involved race, color, and national origin discrimination, we challenge all forms of unlawful discrimination, including sex discrimination.
Since its launch, EPP has challenged over 850 discriminatory programs and scholarships at more than 290 colleges and universities. This is done to ensure that every student has the opportunity to compete on equal terms.
Our most recent filing on August 13, 2026, was a Civil Rights Complaint against Wabash College (“Wabash”):
We bring this civil rights complaint against Wabash College (“Wabash”), a private institution, regarding Wabash’s Pathway To Your Future (“Pathway”) which racially discriminates in favor of “minority” students in violation of Title VI.
We then go on to explain what the Pathway Program is and how it violates the Civil Rights Act:
Pathway is a “free week-long visit program for rising sophomores and juniors in high school who are underrepresented minority students, eligible for federal Pell Grants, and/or first generation college students.” Students must apply to participate in the program which has ran annually since 2022.
Link: https://www.wabash.edu/programs/pathway/
Discriminatory Requirement: “Pathway To Your Future is a free week-long visit program for rising sophomores and juniors in high school who are underrepresented minority students, eligible for federal Pell Grants, and/or first-generation college students.”
EPP then explains why such a requirement violates federal law:
Pathway violates Title VI by discriminating on the basis of race, color, or national origin. The Program is designed specifically for underrepresented minorities. Further, the eligibility is limited to “underrepresented minority students, those eligible for federal Pell Grants, and/or first-generation college students.” This language reflects that the program is immediately available to students who are racial and ethnic minorities, but students who are not minorities are excluded from eligibility unless they can satisfy additional requirements; satisfy the financial requirements for a Pell grant or be a first-generation college student in order to be eligible. This two-tier system of eligibility discriminates against non-minority students.
As we always do, we then spend several pages explaining why the program violates not only federal and state law, but also the college’s own non-discrimination rules. We then request that a formal investigation be opened.
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Robert Fox is an attorney at the Equal Protection Project, and focuses, among things, on filing civil rights complaints against DEI discrimination.
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