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On 31 January 2016, The Blaze published an article with a headline indicating that the University of Connecticut was building a dorm to house black students only: Fox News' Fox Nation aggregated a snippet of a separate web site's article on the same date, with the sole visible excerpt stating that: Many readers expressed skepticism regarding the accuracy of the claim and reported an inability to locate any such initiative announced or described on UConn's web site or the school's social media channels. We contacted UConn's Residential Life department to ask whether any construction for a blacks only dorm was underway. They confirmed the only new housing being built was for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) students — of all ethnicities. An undated document published among UConn's learning initiatives included a Mission portion that read: Some of the material from that document appeared to be the source for articles about a blacks-only dorm linked above. However, a question and answer section of that document expressly stated that ScHOLA2RS program participants wouldn't be living in a facility where they were segregated from other students: A separate portion of the document explained that the cohort would be housed together along with other learning communities: We contacted UConn's Dr. Erik Hines for clarification on the rumor, and he provided a number of details omitted in circulating news reports: The claim that UConn was constructing a special dorm for black students only was false: The learning community ScHOLA2RS House is only one of many such academic communities on campus, participants aren't required to be black, and it is open to anyone who wants to be a part of it.
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