Admission Against Interest: Valley State University Honors College Director Brags About Race-Based Admissions

GVSU Race Discrimination Admissions Under Fire

Grand Valley State University is denying allegations that it favors non-white students in its Honors College admissions and scholarship decisions. Internal emails suggest administrators prioritized applicants of color, potentially violating federal law and Michigan’s constitutional ban on affirmative action. An April 2022 email from Honors College Director Roger Gilles reportedly stated, “We accept virtually all students of color,” and that Hono…

Grand Valley State U Denies Accusation They Base Admissions and Scholarships on Race

“We accept virtually all students of color, except in cases in which the student’s writing is such that we’re convinced they would struggle far too much in our first-year sequences.”

Admission Against Interest: Valley State University Honors College Director Brags About Race-Based Admissions

“We accept virtually all students of color.” Those words from Professor Roger Gilles, director of the Frederick Meijer Honors College, may seem a bit odd to Supreme Court justices who believe that they ended racial discrimination in admissions years ago in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023). The college is part of Grand Valley State University in Michigan and still apparently uses race as not just one factor but an over…