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Ward Connerly on the UC System

December 9, 2009

As you probably read, the University of California system (UC) raised fees by 32 percent for fall 2010 admissions. The American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly, a former UC regent, says he voted against proposals to raise fees for students during his tenure. “But with each vote I realized that UC was slowly moving toward [...]

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Diversity v. Money

November 5, 2009

In an effort to raise money, the University of California at Berkeley plans to admit fewer in-state students next fall and enroll more out-of-state students. This, some say, will reduce the percentage of “underrepresented minority students” on campus. (Source) Budget shortfalls mean schools have to decide which is more important: more brown faces for the [...]

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Asian Discrimination at Elites

October 12, 2009

Americans of Asian descent account for about 12 percent of California’s population, yet they account for 40 percent of all undergraduates at the University of California at Los Angeles, 43 percent at Berkeley, 50 percent at San Diego, and 54 percent at Irvine. The American Civil Rights Institute‘s (ACRI) Ward Connerly has written about UC’s [...]

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Washington Times on Thomas Perez

September 29, 2009

The Washington Times recently published an editorial about Thomas Perez, Maryland’s secretary of labor and President Barack Obama’s nominee for assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Focusing on his record on illegal immigration and comments on racial preferences, the Times writes: “[Perez] has served as president of the board of CASA [...]

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UC’s Admission Policy Changes

August 19, 2009

There’s an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times that discusses the University of California (UC) system’s revised admissions policy in the context of Proposition 209, which became state law in 1996. Since voters barred the state from discriminating against or preferring individuals or groups based on race in hiring, contracting, and admissions, certain government [...]

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Asians Vent Over UC’s Admissions Changes

April 16, 2009

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that parents and groups of Asian descent are upset over the University of California’s (UC) admissions changes. As you may know, these students tend to score higher on standardized tests and achieve higher grades than whites, blacks, Hispanics, and other groups. Earlier this year, the Board of Regents voted [...]

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Ward Connerly: ‘[UC] has essentially lowered its standards’

February 26, 2009

Commenting on the University of California’s (UC) new admissions policy, which is a thinly disguised effort to get around a state law that bars the government from preferring or discriminating against any person based on factors like race and sex, the American Civil Rights Institute‘s Ward Connerly told San Jose Mercury News that UC “has [...]

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Stephan Thernstrom on UC’s ‘Yellow Peril’

February 12, 2009

Stephan Thernstrom, co-author of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, writes about the University of California’s new admissions policy at National Review Online. Among other things, the UC Board of Regents voted to eliminate the requirement for applicants to take two SAT subject tests. Effective 2012, applicants with a GPA of 3.0 or [...]

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Holistic Admissions and ‘Human Accomplishment’

January 16, 2009

Jay Schalin, a senior writer with the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, informs us that in February, the University of California’s (UC) administration and faculty senate plan to discuss changing the admission policy to downplay standardized test scores, and give more weight to high school class rank and subjective factors like “life [...]

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Non-Resident Preferences at UC?

January 7, 2009

It’s a provocative post title, but non-resident preferences may become a reality in the University of California system (UC). Yesterday I linked to an op-ed penned by Ward Connerly, in which he cited California’s perennial budget woes. Well, UC officials may have come up with a solution: granting preferences to applicants who will pay out-of-state [...]