# Top California school under federal investigation over race-based scholarships, student centers

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/top-california-school-under-federal-investigation-over-race-based-scholarships-student-centers/
- Published: 2026-11-05T14:35:43+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T15:54:58+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/05/us-news/uc-berkeley-faces-federal-civil-rights-probe-over-race-based-programs/
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Federal officials are investigating five UC Berkeley programmes and scholarships.
- A complaint alleges some descriptions or criteria discourage or exclude students.
- Berkeley says its centres are open to all and its awards follow the law.

## Summary

The US Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into UC Berkeley following a complaint alleging that three student programmes and two scholarships discriminate based on race, colour or national origin. The probe matters because it will examine whether the programmes’ descriptions and scholarship eligibility rules comply with federal law, even if students are not physically turned away.

The complaint, filed on 10 February by the Legal Insurrection Foundation, names the African American Student Development Office, the Black Resource Center, the Latinx Student Resource Center, the African American Initiative Scholarship and the Lloyd A. Edwards Scholarship. Berkeley says its resource centres are open to all students, its university-administered awards do not consider race, and the two scholarships under scrutiny receive outside funding; it also says about two-thirds of undergraduates qualify for financial aid. California’s Proposition 209, adopted in 1996, bars public institutions from discriminating or granting preferential treatment on grounds including race and national origin.

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