Civil Rights Experts: Google Fellowship Is ‘Illegal’

Some civil rights experts say that Google’s Ph.D. fellowship is “illegal.”

According to The Washington Free Beacon, lawyers have challenged the award of the highly prestigious fellowship that provides almost $100,000 for computer-science students. They claim that the fellowship is illegal and requires them to impose racial restrictions.

Google’s page describes the fellowship as follows: “If universities choose to nominate more students than 2, the third and fourth nominees must self identify as women, Black / African, Hispanic Latino / Latinx or Indigenous, and/or someone with a disability.”

Adam Mortara is a trial attorney who advocates for banning affirmative action admissions practices. He says that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 bans race-based criteria.

According to him, it is against the law for Google’s to sign contracts that are based on race in accordance with the Civil Rights Act of1866. Federal funds are not allowed to be used by universities for the nomination of students under Title VI, 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Edward Blum, the founder of Students for Fair Admissions, agrees and says the program “pits students against one another.”

He stated, according to the Free Beacon that “The Google Fellowship Program is a blatantly illicit and immoral quote plan that pits students based on skin color or ethnic heritage.” “Our nation’s enduring civil rights laws were passed to specifically forbid this type of racial discrimination.”

Dan Morenoff, the executive director of the American Civil Rights Project, said that Google is using money to convince “elite” universities to violate Title VI.

“Google is using its pocket-book to incentivize America’s elite universities to violate Title VI,” he added. “It’s using its financial support to directly counter Congress’s policy.”

For its part, Google says the fellowship doesn’t break the law..

“Like many companies, we actively encourage a broad range of individuals to apply to our PhD Fellowship program in order to attract the widest and most representative pool of applicants possible—this follows all relevant laws and is extremely common to do,” a Google spokesperson said according to the Free Beacon. Selection for fellowships is made without regard to demographics. Fellows are eligible for unrestricted funds for their educations. If they’re interested in working for Google they can apply for jobs, go through the same hiring process, as everyone else.

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