YALE, USC, AND NOW MICHIGAN: ‘Girls Code Camp’ and other gender-specific programs under fire at University of Michigan for potential Title IX violations.
After receiving a complaint from an economics professor, University of Michigan school officials are currently reviewing 11 separate university programs that may be in violation of Title IX, the Michigan State Constitution, and UM’s own nondiscrimination policy by specifically favoring female students and female hospital patients over males.
According to professor Mark J. Perry, an American Enterprise Institute scholar and professor of economics at the UM-Flint campus, programs such as “Girls Code Camp” and “The Och Initiative for Women in Finance, Math and Sciences” may possibly be in violation of Title IX guidelines regarding gender discrimination because they appear to be “illegally granting preferential treatment for cis women and illegally discriminating against men and gender non-conforming students, faculty and patients.”
In his complaint, Perry highlighted 11 total campus programs or initiatives that appear to be in violation of the University of Michigan’s own guidelines of gender discrimination, as well as the “Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972, Section 681. Sex” policy that forbids gender discrimination “under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Perry also pointed out that the school may also be discriminating against their own medical patients as well by offering initiatives such as the “Women’s Respiratory Clinic” and the “Women’s Heart Program,” both of which are listed as offering medical treatments specifically tailored to “women.”
In conducting his research, Perry also found that before benefits, University of Michigan spends an astonishing $8.4 million dollars each year employing a diversity staff of 93 individuals, 23 of whom earn more than $100,000 each year. The top paid diversity officer is Robert Sellers, who serves as the vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer and takes home an annual salary of $396,550 per year.
Well, on the other hand, such employees provide reliable votes and ground troops for Democrats.
And congrats to Mark Perry for speaking up. I think we need more of this.