Mixed-Raced Student Sues University, Says It Misled Her To Promote Racial Diversity

The College Fix reports:

A lawsuit has been filed against the University of Connecticut on behalf of a mixed-race graduate student who claims she was essentially lied to by campus officials, who told her they’d given her a merit-based scholarship, when instead they’d given her a diversity-based one.

The Center for Individual Rights is representing grad student Pamela Swanigan, who claims that her budding career has been tarnished by the misrepresentation, as diversity or multicultural-based scholarships are viewed by potential employers as far less prestigious than merit-based ones.

“My goal is to ensure that students are treated as individuals regardless of race and regardless of other efforts to promote racial diversity,” states Swanigan, whose father is black and whose mother is white. “I wanted – and still want – to compete on the basis of my academic abilities just like any other student.”

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