Watchdog files federal complaint to investigate and sanction Missouri State University for its no-white-males business boot campA civil rights watchdog has asked the federal government to investigate and sanction Missouri State University for a no-white-males-allowed seminar it hosted earlier this year.
While MSU has pledged not to offer another program excluding people on the basis of race or sex, EPP argues the damage is done, and that there’s no guarantee in official MSU policy that it won’t happen again.he’d started to sign up for the boot camp for startup businesses but concluded as a white male that he wasn’t eligible for the program or its $3,000 stipend.
OCR’s remedial actions, EPP writes, should include “if necessary, imposing fines, initiating administrative proceedings to suspend, terminate, or refuse to grant or continue federal financial assistance, and referring the case to the Department of Justice for judicial proceedings to enforce the rights of the United States.
The Heartlander asked MSU for comment on the Office for Civil Rights complaint. “We don’t comment on pending litigation,” a spokesperson wrote in an email.to The Heartlander in April that the no-white-males boot camp “was funded by the U.S. Bank Foundation and, on a one-time basis, focused on minority and/or women-owned businesses.