A medical school in Florida quietly removed information about its elective scholar program from its website amid a federal investigation by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

OCR It was opened An April survey of the Visiting Elective Scholars Program at the University of Florida School of Medicine-Jacksonville Pediatrics found that eligibility was limited to “Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian.” Are listed. , LGBTQ+ applicants, according to Go to the archived version of the site. Since OCR began investigating this program, the website appears to have cleared all information about the program. according to Revert to current version. ” (Related: Exclusive: Ohio hospital doubles ‘diversity quota’ for medical leaders)

The website link now says the page “does not exist” and “may have been moved.”the website was last archived in April, and search Checking the school’s website for this program does not provide any information about this initiative.

Mark Perry, a senior researcher at the medical watchdog group Don Not Harm, has argued that the program violates Title VI and Title IX by discriminating on the basis of race and gender, respectively. OCR has launched an investigation into this program. according to Go to the Do No Harm press release.

Mark Perry has filed nearly 850 complaints with the Office of Civil Rights, and his campaign against programs and policies that seek to lift women and people of color has led others to file hundreds of complaints themselves. encouraged to submit. https://t.co/ch5s4QustN

— Higher Education Chronicle (@chronicle) July 12, 2023

“We believe in the importance of diversity and inclusion in medicine and medical education,” said an archived version of the agency’s website. “We created this scholarship to encourage and encourage fourth-year medical students from underrepresented backgrounds in the Department of Pediatrics at the Jacksonville University School of Medicine in Jacksonville, Florida.”

According to The New York Times, the number of civil rights lawsuits filed with the OCR alleging discrimination in kindergarten through high school and college has doubled from the previous year, with an increase from October 2021 to September 2022. Nearly 19,000 cases have been filed so far. Most of the complaints filed were allegations of discrimination based on race and gender.

The University of Florida Jacksonville School of Medicine did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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