RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - The University of Richmond is now facing a civil rights complaint against it.

The Rhode Island-based Equal Protection Project alleges that the university is offering discriminatory scholarships, singling out the VSCPA, Business Partnership and the Law Women’s Centennial scholarships.

“Two violate the section six of the Civil Rights Act, by their terms on the university’s website limit themselves to what they call minorities,” said William Jacobson, founder of the Equal Protection Project. “That’s a very commonly understood term to mean non-white. The other scholarship is listed as [a] women’s scholarship; discrimination on the basis of sex violates Title IX if it favors men or if it favors women.”

Jacobson told me that the Department of Education and the Office of

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