Office for Civil Rights investigating Boise State over scholarship for women in STEM

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'The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating Boise State University after a complaint that a scholarship for women in certain fields discriminates against students based on sex.

In a letter obtained by the Idaho Statesman, the federal agency said it is proceeding with an investigation, but has not determined the merits of the claim.

The complaint was filed after a scholarship was created at the university specifically for women studying science, technology, engineering, math, medicine or the law — in response to a tenured professor’s public comments that women shouldn’t be recruited into those fields.

The complaint, filed in January, alleged the university was “discriminating against male students, based on sex, by offering the Boise State Women in STEM, Medicine and Law Scholarship, for which only female students are eligible,” according to the OCR letter. The letter was first reported by Idaho Dispatch.'