America First Policy Institute on Thursday filed a civil rights complaint against Cornell University, alleging the Ivy League institution illegally hired based on DEI metrics — passing over far more qualified applicants to advance equity.
The eight-page complaint, a copy of which was provided to The College Fix on Thursday, was lodged with the Department of Justice and Education Department. It included copies of two bombshell emails provided by an unnamed Cornell whistleblower to back up its allegations.
In one email, a redacted STEM department chair spells out a “diversity hire” process that elevated one candidate over all others. In the second email, it details how all candidates for a position were prescreened based on their DEI statements and how highly qualified candidates were axed from consideration.
The complaint calls on an investigation by the Office for Civil Rights.
“Cornell’s race-, sex-, and ethnicity-based practices have not only led to explicit acts of discrimination in hiring and scholarship decisions, they have also created a hostile environment that violates the civil rights of students, faculty, and staff who do not share the institutionally favored ideological views,” the institute stated in the memo.
In the first whistleblower email, dated Dec. 2020, the STEM department chair begins with explaining their conversations with a DEI dean and “our hoped-for diversity hire” and how they want to do something “a little out of the ordinary.”
It goes on to...
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