Students at DePaul University are calling on the school to provide special accommodations for Black students. But as one scholar told Campus Reform, such demands, if enacted, would constitute racial discrimination.
Black Student Union representatives at DePaul University in Chicago are demanding new programs and spaces reserved solely for Black students and faculty.
The BSU’s demands include “healing & safe spaces for Black students on and off-campus,” despite that DePaul University previously opened cultural centers for Black, Latino, Asian American, and LGBT students. The programs would potentially violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits any college receiving federal funds from enacting programs that discriminate on the basis of race.
The BSU also called on DePaul to limit administrative positions in its healing and safe spaces to “Black faculty and staff.”
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