The Education Department does not consider native language skills as a plus in evaluating applications for a competitive research program. A lawsuit is trying to change that. The Education Department is extending the deadline and rethinking how it selects fellows for its competitive Fulbright-Hays doctoral research program following lawsuits and a federal order that blocks the agency from applying certain foreign language criteria to 2023 applicants.
An Education Department regulation penalizes Fulbright-Hays applicants if they grew up speaking the language of their proposed country for research. Lawsuits have followed.
The outing of a white woman and inclusion officer who claimed to be of Latin, South Asian and Arab descent marks the latest example of a race faker being exposed.