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Cornell Law professor William A. Jacobson, founder of the Equal Protection Project, has filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education 's civil rights office accusing the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) of running more than a dozen scholarships that exclude students based on race, sex or national origin.

The 13 programs named in the complaint include awards limited to "LatinX" freshmen, "Pilipinx" students, "undocumented undergraduates," and female-only applicants. The filing claims those criteria violate Title VI and Title IX of federal civil-rights law, which bar discrimination by federally funded schools.

"That race- and sex-based discriminatory scholarships exist at a major

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