Showing posts with label aim of increasing diversity in the arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aim of increasing diversity in the arts. Show all posts

Saturday, May 7, 2016

White Student Sues Diversity Internship For ‘Discrimination’; Daily Beast, 5/4/16

Kelly Weill, Daily Beast; White Student Sues Diversity Internship For ‘Discrimination’ :
"The Getty Foundation’s Multicultural Internship for arts studies had strict guidelines. Only undergraduate students of African-American, Asian, Latino, Native American, and Pacific Islander descent—groups frequently underrepresented in the arts—were eligible.
But one white applicant missed the memo.
Samantha Niemann, an undergraduate at Southern Utah University, is suing the Getty Foundation for discrimination, claiming the group wrongfully barred her from its program aimed at increasing diversity in the arts. In a lawsuit filed last Friday in Los Angeles’ Superior Court, Niemann accused Getty of “harassment, discrimination, and retaliation” for failing to hire or consider her for an internship...
...[H]artwig added that Getty had decided to open the internship to white applicants in recent months."