A lawsuit accuses Cornell University of “emphasizing race” in violation of the Civil Rights Act in its attempt to fill a highly specialized faculty position. The suit, filed by Dr. Colin Wright, alleges that all the top 25 candidates were either “Black, Latina, LGBTQ, disability, American Indian or Southeast Asian,” adding that “not a single one had ‘white’ listed by his or her name.” Wright, an applicant for the position, touts his experience in the lawsuit and says the university “brazenly” refused to consider white candidates, adding that “the secrecy surrounding Cornell’s hiring process deprived qualified individuals, myself included, of any knowledge that our rights had been violated.”
