Young America’s Foundation filed four new complaints with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on Monday morning, part of YAF’s nationwide offensive to root out radical DEI programs being used to poison young minds.
Citing violations of Title VI, Title IX, and executive orders implemented by President Donald Trump, YAF’s latest complaints shine a light on multiple and ongoing civil rights violations at the University of Iowa, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Michigan State University, and Kansas State University.
“YAF has long stood for students’ rights and against the radical Left’s indoctrination,” YAF Chief Communications Officer Spencer Brown emphasized. “Now, thanks to President Trump’s policies, we look forward to working with his administration to let freedom ring on American campuses as we expose and help end the discriminatory practices that have long unfairly and unlawfully punished students.”
As YAF’s complaints expose, in detail, colleges and universities continue their attempts to force radical DEI programs — even after such discriminatory practices were supposed to end.
At Kansas State University, the school “has retained seemingly all of its DEI personnel but has simply reworked a few titles,” including changing administrator Rana Johnson’s title from “Vice President for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging” to “Vice President for Access and Opportunity.” This is a blatant attempt to circumvent federal law.
Michigan State University continues to list a whopping 17 “Diversity Centers and Institutes” which warrant investigation as well, and has a strategic plan that aims to “advance equity by eliminating race and ethnicity opportunity gaps across all subgroups of students by 2030.”
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “forces students to agree with and promote gender ideology as a condition of access to club recognition and benefits,” funds the campus’ notorious “Sex Week,” uses “self-designated ‘pronouns,'” and offers programming on “gender identity” through its “Pride Center.” In addition, UTK’s “Mattering and Belonging Division” is a DEI department by another name.
The University of Iowa has a requirement that students express and agree to a “human rights” clause which recognizes sex-based distinctions that are not legitimate under law and institutionalizes a commitment to “affirmative action” in its policy manual. What’s more, the school’s “Division of Access, Opportunity, and Diversity” is yet another DEI office in plain sight, and the fact that the “Office for Institutional Equity” has disciplinary authority over students is alarming.
The policies and practices used by these institutions have been discriminatory, inane, and unlawful for years. YAF has routinely challenged and defeated such policies and, under Trump’s second term, the Foundation is eager to work alongside the administration to expose and end these DEI programs.
These four new complaints build on YAF’s recent successful efforts to restore and defend students’ rights at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
All four complaints can be viewed at the links below:
