For the past few months, officials of the University of California have been proud that they have acknowledged the most colorful class in their broader system so far.
They have been able to do this, they say, despite the 28 -year -old state ban in considering the races in college admission, the proposal is known as 209.
However, a case filed by a newly formed group on Monday aimed at the university’s efforts, denying state law and reclaiming caste-conscious admission and accused of cheating the California system. In contrast to ethnic discrimination, this group of students was organized by the continuous critic of the IRM action.
This case has been accused of harming all students by gradually bringing the California system to the ethnic preferences in recent years to express the anger of the few people of black and Hispanic students in top universities in the state.
California University System spokesman State Holbrook said the university has not yet served with legal papers, so it cannot respond directly to the case. However, he said that after the ban, it adjusted its admission practices to comply with the law and it was not just for statistical purposes for graduate students’ race and ethnicity.
Students against ethnic discrimination The latest collapse was established by a group that included researchers and Asian American Anti-Firming Action activists. Among them is Richard Sandar, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has created some of the crusade of fighting with IRM.
The outlook of this group imitates the students’ strategies for admission, which the company defeated the Harvard and North Carolina University in the landmark, who rejected the recognized action in the nationwide college admission.
The case has accused the University of California’s University System of the Federal Civil Rights Act of the Sixth of the Federal Civil Rights Act and complained of equal protection of the 7th Amendment.
This is the court to appoint a court monitor to select the UC system in a “colorful-blind manner” to hire a court monitor, “to eliminate corrupt and illegal nations and sexual preferences that submit the so-called academic merit to the so-called academic merit to submit the so-called academic merit. Consideration of diversity. ”
Last month, the UC system reported that the black graduation enrollment was 4.6 percent across 10 campuses and Latino enrollment by 3.1 percent. In the context of the Supreme Court’s decision, it is against this growth with many other universities fighting to maintain black and hispanic enrollment.
For almost a decade, the information shows the African American Fresman admission system continuous but small growth – for the decline of 5 percent to 2021 in 20 2016, 5 or 5 percent. The percentage of Hispanic students has also increased. Slightly, from the much larger base. (About 6 percent of California Black and 40 percent Latino.)
The university has said that it has increased the graduation list as a whole and the list of the states has increased outside the state and the diversity of the most in-demand campuses, especially through the help of financing from the state, has increased. It also targets recruitment and college preparatory courses for underprivileged students and eliminates the requirements of SAT and Law Examination.
John Aubre Douglas, a senior research fellow at the Center for Studies in Berkeley Higher Education, said that when he was not inherent in admission practice, “I think the admissions are extremely controlled and careful and cautioned for the prope 209 restrictions, and the Supreme Court positive. The verdict of ”.
He also added that most of the enrollment of enrollment can be explained by the Demographic Pool and the college for the college, and as he added to their high school graduate rates.
California voters accepted the proposal 209, which banned nation’s use in the state public universities in 1996, became the first in nine states to take similar steps.
After the proposal 209 approval, there was only one black student in the first class of Berkeley Law School and he was admitted before the referendum. The situation in Berkeley was so deadly that it became a “Donbury” cartoon subject, where Berkeley Law Joanny Caucas reached his reunion that it was said that “Well,” Well, We don’t accept black people anymore The “
Dr. Sanda said in an interview that he believed that Berkeley had almost immediately returned to the race conscious admission.
If that is the case, the effect is small. The number of African American newcomers admitted to Berkeley has increased to 683 or 5 percent, 464 or 3 percent in the fall of 2024, 3 percent in 2016.
Janet Gilmore, a spokesman for the system flagship, the University of California, Berkeley, said the institution was obeying the law.
“UC is committed to admitting and enroll the best and brilliant students in Berkeley and we do this in compliance with all states, federals and university policies and laws,” he said.
Early in the early 2006, after the proposal 209 passed, only 96 black among the 4,800 newcomers expected to be admitted to UCLA was the lowest personality since 1973. There were twenty athletes, the Los Angeles Times according to a front-page article during that time. Black students were known as “notorious 96” and administrators blamed the situation for measuring the ballot. (Four more black students were admitted by appeal.)
The UCLA has also made public outrage, alleged that the allegations were made. UCLA cases and questions about its admission in the greater university system.
In the case filed on Monday, a member of the Faculty of Extreme Committee for the UCLA admission quoted Tim Grosclose for admission, who said that the UCLA Chancellor admission was further subject to the subject. According to the complaint, George Mason University Professor of Economics at the University.
Dr. Sandar argues that the recognized action is harmful to black and Latino students who are less ready and academically struggling. His theory, known as “Amilach”, argues that students will do better with grade -like system, diligence and graduate rates in science and mathematics, which matches their preparation. The complaint states that the system has become more and more protected about this national data, off the websites that provide it.
However many experts have argued the theory of Amil, especially after Justice Antonin Scalia Comment In the 21st, during the oral argument in a positive action case of the Supreme Court, black students could go to “slow-track” colleges where they could succeed.
Matthew Chingos, the then Vice President of the Urban Institute, challenged Justice Skalia’s comments at that time. Studies have shown that students are more likely to graduate from more electoral colleges with similar certificates participating in different colleges, Dr. Chingos mentioned.
And his analysis showed that the decisions were “the best vulnerable proof for this claim and any evidence of any proof of any connection with recognized action principles.”
The allegations filed on Monday allowed that “the impact of the proposal 209 on UC and its students was complicated and still controversial by the academics.” And the evidence that it gives is sometimes contradictory.
To strengthen the matter, the system is cheating, the complaint says that statistical analysis shows an impossible equality between black and hispanic admission rates and overall admission rates. And it says that Dr. Sandar’s publicly available UC Law School data analysis shows that the opportunity to admit as white or Asian American students is better than a relatively low LSAT score and grade point average black students.
However, the complaint further noted that the black and Latino undergraduate rates across the system were “much higher” in the system compared to the 9th. It is reasonable that students do “cascade” where they can compete in less colleges.
And it acknowledged that there were some more reasons to play that could explain the growth of black and Hispanic students – not to be granted in their admission office, but more was applied and the university system responded to the proposed 209 and helping them. Further resources to do.
Susan C Beachi Reporting contributions.
