|
Intermix.org.uk is a website for the benefit
of mixed-race families, individuals and anyone who feels they have a multiracial
identity and want to join us. Our mission is to offer a view of the mixed-race experience, highlighting icons, film, books, poetry, parenting techniques, celebrities, real lives and much more. Our online forums are a great place to meet others, ask questions, voice your opinions and keep in touch. Sign up for our monthly newsletter and delve into our pages. Want to join in? Become an Intermix member to take part: |
Student Sues University Of Connecticut
Merit-based scholarship did not exist.
Mixed-Race Grad student Pamela Swanigan has filed a lawsuit against the University of Connecticut claiming she was lied to by campus officials, who told her they'd given her a merit-based scholarship, when instead they'd given her a diversity-based one.
Pamela believes her career has been tarnished by the misrepresentation, as diversity or multicultural-based scholarships are viewed by potential employers as far less prestigious than merit-based ones.
Pamela is being represented by the Centre for Individual Rights (CIR) who allege in the lawsuit that "in an acceptance letter to Pamela, the Director of Graduate Studies offered her a merit-based scholarship called the 'Vice Provost's Award for Excellence.' It turned out that no such program existed at the time she applied.
'Although the school told Pamela she had received a merit-based scholarship, in fact and without her knowledge, it had swapped her award for one in a less prestigious and largely segregated scholarship program intended to increase 'diversity,' representatives of CIR state.
In 2011, when Pamela asked administrators whether she could finish earning her degree out of state and retain the unknowingly fictional "Vice Provost's Award for Excellence," she learned it was a fake scholarship and she had actually been receiving the diversity one instead.
Terence Pell, President of the CIR, said in an interview with The College Fix 'A scholarship awarded on the basis of race inevitably stigmatizes talented minority applicants, who come to be recognized for their race rather than their considerable academic achievements.'
CIR is suing UConn to retroactively award the merit scholarship – and the money that comes with it – to Pamela, as well as any punitive compensation.
Pamela seems determined in her efforts, 'My goal is to ensure that students are treated as individuals regardless of race and regardless of other efforts to promote racial diversity, I wanted – and still want – to compete on the basis of my academic abilities just like any other student.'
Hear hear.
Source:The College Fix
