University of Virginia accused of racial discrimination against Whites,

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The University of Virginia is being accused of racial discrimination against white people and is now facing a civil rights complaint.

A university program to help students in the “Black, Indigenous, and People of Color” category reportedly excluded white students according to a federal civil rights complaint filed by the Equal Protection Project (EPP). The complaint, filed on Oct. 1 with the U.S. Department of Education, accused the university of “creating, sponsoring and promoting a racially discriminatory program called the BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program.”

The mentoring program’s website description appeared to have been updated since the filing of the complaint that noted the goal of the program was to “improve BIPOC undergraduates’ program experiences, career opportunities, and retention through pairing these learners with alumni mentors.”

“The BIPOC Mentoring Program violates Title VI because it conditions eligibility for participation on a student’s race, ethnicity, and skin color. And, because UVA is a public university, its creation, sponsorship, promotion, and hosting of this discriminatory program also violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” stated the complaint, which was obtained by Fox News Digital.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights was asked by the EPP to examine the university’s “role in creating, promoting and administering this program and to impose whatever remedial relief is necessary to hold it accountable for that unlawful conduct.”

The investigation request noted that the filing included “fines, initiating administrative proceedings to suspend or terminate federal financial assistance, and referring the case to the Department of Justice for judicial proceedings to enforce the rights of the United States under federal law.”

According to the website, the BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program is “made possible by the generosity of the UVA Parents Program and is overseen by EHD’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ODEI).” However, the EPP noticed changes made to the website after the complaint was filed.

According to Fox News:

The school’s website said the BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program was seeking “up to 25 BIPOC undergraduates” as recently as October 2, according to the Internet Archives Wayback Machine.

It has since been edited to declare the program is seeking “up to 25 undergraduates” and notes the “program was created with BIPOC students in mind.”

“The wording change by UVA so soon after our complaint is a tacit admission of wrongdoing,” Cornell Law professor William A. Jacobson, who founded the EPP, told Fox News Digital.

“These wording changes, however, do not fully solve the problem because UVA still signals that the program was ‘created with BIPOC students in mind.’ That is a dog whistle that only BIPOC students are encouraged to apply and that non-BIPOC — i.e. White — students are not welcome,” Jacobson added. “UVA needs to make the program fully open and welcoming to all students without regard to race rather than playing word games.”

“The Equal Protection Project is devoted to the fair treatment of all persons without regard to race or ethnicity,” the website explains. “Our guiding principle is that there is no ‘good’ form of racism. The remedy for racism never is more racism.”

A University of Virginia spokesperson told Fox News Digital that they had not yet received the complaint so they couldn’t comment.

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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.