February 27, 2026
(D)UMSL is Woke in Missouri
Timothy Birdnow
Open, blatant discrimination at the University of Missouri St. Louis.
UMSL is just down the road from downtown Ferguson.
The sad thing is this university is not under the control of St. Louis but of the state of Missouri, which is and has been solidly in the hands of the GOP.
From the Legal Insurrectionists:
It’s always of interest when we find open discrimination at public universities in red states that have taken a hard line on DEI. Our most recent filing was just such a case, on February 26, 2026, was against the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL).
From the Civil Rights Complaint filed with the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education:
We bring this civil rights complaint against the University of Missouri – St. Louis (UMSL) for offering, administering, and promoting twelve (12) scholarships that discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, and/or sex in violation of Title VI and Title IX, respectively….
The scholarships listed below are currently offered to UMSL students and applicants for admission, according to the UMSL website, and violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VI”) and its implementing regulations4 by discriminating against students based on their race and skin color, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX”) and its implementing regulations5 by discriminating against students based on their sex, or both.6 Because UMSL is a public university, these discriminatory scholarships also violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The article goes on to list these scholarships:
Rhonda Knehans-Drake Memorial Scholarship in Data AnalyticsPreference given to underrepresented minority groups
Sauter, Vicki Endowed Scholarship in Information Systems and TechnologyPreference given to underrepresented minority groups
Swain O’Leary Family Accounting ScholarshipSecond preference given to underrepresented minority groups
John Works Memorial Scholarship in HistoryRecipient to be a member of an underrepresented minority, who identified as African or African American
Randy Sanderson ScholarshipPreference given to African American studentsJacobs/Sverdrup Engineering ScholarshipPreference given to minority and women students
Harriett Woods Leadership ScholarshipPreference given to female students
The Hazel L. Kohring Scholarship for Women in TransitionCandidates to be displaced female students 25 years old or older
University of Missouri – St. Louis Women Scholarship FundPreferred candidate is a female student
Women in Chemistry ScholarshipPreference given to female students 25 years old or older
Elisabeth Horkits Scholarship FundPrimary consideration given to women
The Women of AT&T Foundation Endowed ScholarshipPreference given to female students
Why this desperation to bring women and minorities into fields? Why can't academia be satisfied with bringing the best and brightest into the fields and letting people work to that end? There is zero value in "diversity" as a goal of its; own.
When I was in college this whole "diversity" nonsense was gearing up and I knew then it was ridiculous. By "diversity" they meant minority, and of that only approved minorities. An Afrikaaner, say, would not make the cut as "diverse" because he was a white man. Neither would a Christian woman.
It has become so entrenched now that nobody ever bothers to question this assumption, that "diversity is our strength" when in fact diversity is rarely anybody's strength. America has done well DESPITE her diversity, and that because we always used to make people adopt American culture first. Now we don't and we are seeing the same problems that have plagued culturally diverse places like the Balkans.
That the state of Missouri would allow this is infuriating. What is the point of electing Republicans if they act like Democrats? Sadly Missouri's GOP are mostly RINO's and out for their own interests, little more. Few in the Missouri legislature actually try to move the ball forward. Heck; we can't even pass decent tax relief in this state, despite having all the branches of government and a supermajority in the legislature.
That's how you wind up with Democrats in control even when they are out of power; the Republicans are more about increasing their wealth than anything else.
Until we have men and women of character in office this will continue. Sadly I don't see many men or women of character stepping up to the plate, at least not here in the Shw Me State.
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