U of I scrutinized over perceived preference for international students – Center Square

“Public institutions, and the University of Illinois is a publicly funded institution, are subject to constitutional restraints on things like racial discrimination and affirmative action, and those things apply because of the Equal Protection Clause of the federal Constitution,” said Reilly Stephens, of the Liberty Justice Center,. “That doesn’t apply to a private university. The trick is that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also applies to institutions that take federal funds, so virtually every university in the country is bound by those same rules as a condition of receiving federal money.”