Over the past few months, officials at the University of California boast that they have recognized the most racial classes in vast systems so far.
They say they were able to do this despite the ban of 28 -year -old state, who examined the university enrollment race known as the proposition 209.
However, the lawsuit filed on Monday by a newly formed group is aiming for universities' efforts, accusing California's fraudulent system by secretly recovering enrollment that is conscious of race contrary to the state law. I am doing it. Groups and students opposed racism were organized by permanent critics for positive behavior.
This lawsuit damages all students by gradually recovering recent racial preference to hinder the population of blacks and hispanic students at the top universities in California. It blame the system.
Stett Holbrook, a spokesman of the University of California, stated that the university had not yet been accompanied by legal dissertation and could not respond directly to the lawsuit. However, after the ban, he said that he had adjusted admission to comply with the law, and gathered undergraduate students and ethnic groups only for statistical purposes, not for enrollment.
Students for racist discrimination were established last fall by groups, including researchers and Asian -American anti -action activists. Among them is Richard Thunder, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The group's approach emulates students' strategies for fair admission, an organization that broke Harvard University and North Carolina University in the Landmark 2023 Supreme Court, which refused positive actions in university enrollment nationwide.
This lawsuit accused the California University of Civil Public Rights Law of the Federal Civil Rights Law for protection against racism, and is the 14th amendment equality protection clause.
In order to select students in the UC system as “color -blindness,” the court, appointed a court monitor to supervise the admission decision, and said, “Illegal races and gender that subordinate the so -called academic benefits. Diversity that eliminates tastes. “
Last month, the UC system reported that black undergraduate registration increased by 4.6 % and the number of Latin registrations has increased by 3.1 % in the entire campus. The increase in contrast to many universities that had struggled to maintain black and hiss bread registration in response to the Supreme Court's ruling.
Almost 10 years, the data has shown a slight increase in new students in African Americans in the entire system due to the decrease of 4,358 in 2016 and 4 % to 2024 in 2016. From a little big bass. (Approximately 6 % of Californians are black and 40 % is Latin.)
He stated that the university has been registered as undergraduate in the fall of last year and the enrollment class diversity in the fall of last year, restricting the registration outside the state, and increased through funding from states on the most demanding campus. 。 In addition, we targeted the recruitment of blessed students and the preparation course of the university, and eliminated the test requirements for SAT and ACT.
John Aubley Douglas, a senior researcher at the Berkeley's Higher Education Research Center, was not an insider for admission, but said, “My senses are highly regulated and be careful to avoid restrictions on proposals 209. It is the Supreme Court for a positive lawsuit.
Many of the increase in registration can be explained by taking the applicant's population statistics pool and necessary courses, and the university is ready as the high school graduation rate increases.
California voters adopted proposition 209, banned the use of races in a public university in a state in 1996, and became the first of the nine states, taking the same action.
In the first class of Berkeley's Roast School after the proposition 209 was approved, he was recognized before the referendum. Berkeley was very miserable, so it was a topic of “Doonsberry” manga. There, Joanney Cocas, a graduate of the Berkeley method, arrived at the reunion, “Well, it is said that it has not changed much except for what we do not recognize anymore.”
In an interview, Dr. Sander said he believed that Berkeley had returned to a racial admission almost quickly.
If so, the impact is smaller. Berkeley's recognized number of freshmen in African Americans rose from 464 in 2016 or 3 % to 683 (5 %) in the fall of 2024.
Janet Gilmore, a spokeswoman at the University of California, the flagship of the system, said that the institution was complying with the law.
“UC Berkeley is working on recognizing and registering the best and brightest students, and we are doing so in conjunction with all states, federal policies and laws,” she said. 。
In the fall of 2006, after passing the proposition 209, only 96 of the 4,800 new students expected to be registered with UCLA were black. It was the lowest number since 1973. The 20 were athletes. Los Angelel Staims. Black students became known as “notorious 96”, and administrators accused the status of voting measures. (Furthermore, four black students were recognized by appeal.)
UCLA also states that he has succumbed to the masses of the masses. UCLA introduced questions about the incident and its enrollment to a larger university system.
In a lawsuit filed on Monday, the complaint quoted Tim Groseclose, a member of the UCLA enrollment teacher's monitoring committee, stated that UCLA's prime minister had made enrollment more subjective. Dr. Glocross, now a professor at the University of George Mason, believed that this new policy has been sinking to reconnect racial preference in hospitalization.
Dr. Sander claims that positive behavior is harmful to blacks and Latin students who are not very ready and academically struggling. His theory, known as a “mismatch,” claims that students are suitable for preparing for measures such as science sustainability, science, mathematics, and graduation rates at universities. The complaint states that the system has been more vigilant in such data and shut down the website that provided it.
However, many experts, especially in 2015, commented in the oral discussion in the Supreme Court in the Supreme Court in 2015, and then black students could succeed. I am disagreement with the mismatch theory that it may be better to go to college. 。
Matthew Chingos, the vice president of the Urban Research Institute at the time, challenged Judge Skaria at the time. Dr. Chingos pointed out that students with similar qualifications to attend different universities are more likely to graduate from selective universities.
And his analysis shows that the mismatch conclusion is based on “there is no evidence of the very weak evidence of this claim and the positive action policy.”
The complaint submitted on Monday is permitted as “the impact of UC and its proposals 209 is complicated and is still discussed by scholars.” And the evidence it provides is sometimes inconsistent.
To strengthen the fact that the system is doing fraudulent acts, complaints indicate that statistical analysis indicates an unlikely average between black and hiss bread admission rates and overall admission rates. Masu. Analysis of Dr. SANDER's public UC school data may be recognized by black students with a relatively low LSAT score and grade point average as a white or Asian American student with similar qualifications. It indicates that it is 10 times.
However, the complaint also states that the black and Latin graduation rate of the entire system “much higher” is “much higher” than in 2006 than in 1998.
He acknowledged that there were other factors that could explain the increase in blacks and hiss bread students. Although they are not preferred at the entrance office, as the university system responded to the proposal 209, more were applying and entering. More resources to support them.
Susan C. Beachie Contributed report.
