“ the faculty and students of South Asian and Indian origin somehow so inherently bigoted that a special category that only applies to them was merited? This false presumption is absolutely baseless, deeply offensive, and racist.” This is by definition discriminatory,” HAF executive director and co-founder Suhag Shukla told VICE World News. “It will only apply to and implicate faculty of Indian and South Asian origin. The Hindu American Foundation (HAF), an advocacy group that claims to represent the rights of some 2 million Hindu-Americans, plans to legally challenge it.
Not everyone is happy about the university’s bold move on caste, though. CSU is the largest four-year public university system in the U.S. It will apply to all of its 23 campuses, close to half a million students, and over 29,000 faculty members, 600 of whom are Indian Americans.
Maine’s Colby College the University of California, Davis Harvard University and Brandeis University, Massachusetts – have all recently included caste as an officially protected category against discrimination.īut the change in CSU could have the greatest impact. CSU is not the first American university to take on caste-based discrimination.
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