An advocacy group blasted the university for allegedly engaging in racial discrimination by participating in a library internship program available only to black students.
for allegedly engaging in racial discrimination by participating in a library internship program available only to black students.
“As the [Touhey Library Equity Fellowship] is racially exclusionary, we write to put you on notice that this program violates a variety of federal, state and local civil rights laws, as well state and federal constitutional prohibitions on race-based discrimination,” said William Jacobson, a Cornell University law professor and president of the group.The group received a tip about SUNY Albany’s role in starting and promoting the library internship program.
Development webpage, two of the APL’s branches, and is available only to black graduates of library school programs,” the group said in its cease and desist letter.The internship program is now open to black students from any college, not just SUNY Albany, according to an“This program discriminates on the basis of race. There is no good form of racism, supporting one racial group over another,” Jacobson told The Post Thursday.
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