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America First Legal Demands DOJ Inquiry Into Harvard Medical School’s Race-Conscious Policies

The complaint claims Harvard Medical School embeds racial preferences in admissions through race proxies funded by federal grants, violating civil rights statutes.

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Overview

  • America First Legal filed a 26-page civil rights complaint with the Department of Justice on August 6 calling for a formal investigation into Harvard Medical School’s admissions, scholarships, residency pipelines, faculty hiring and research practices.
  • The complaint alleges the school uses race proxies embedded in its holistic admissions criteria and ideologically driven DEI frameworks to engineer predetermined demographic outcomes.
  • Harvard is accused of rebranding its DEI offices under new euphemisms while retaining the same leadership and diversity-focused initiatives.
  • America First Legal cites at least $49 million in taxpayer-supported grants, including a $21.9 million award for the Clinical and Translational Science Center, as funding for race-based programming.
  • It follows a DOJ Title VI investigation opened in April and an EEOC probe in May, marking an escalation in federal scrutiny of race-conscious university DEI initiatives.