A recent lawsuit alleges Cornell University allowed diversity administrators to build an interview list composed only of "underrepresented minority scholars," effectively refusing to consider white candidates and violating Title VII, the complaint says. The complaint was filed with assistance from the America First Policy Institute and argues the search was kept private in violation of university policy. Cornell declined to comment. The case lands amid heightened legal scrutiny of campus DEI practices and follows federal and private challenges nationwide over whether certain diversity initiatives amount to unlawful preferential treatment.