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Berkeley chancellor told students to vote for 2020 California Proposition 16, which would've repeated 1996 Proposition 209 that banned race-based admission in p
by frollogaston 5mo ago
Berkeley chancellor told students to vote for 2020 California Proposition 16, which would've repeated 1996 Proposition 209 that banned race-based admission in public universities. Prop 16 failed. Subsequently, Cal started ignoring SAT/ACT scores. I have to think this was their alternative way of taking fewer Asian students, who average highest on that. Soon after I got an email from the same chancellor praising the change for bringing more racial diversity. The email included before and after numbers where % Asian decreased and all others increased.
- thescriptkiddie 5mo agopeople thinking california universities are discriminating against asian students is really funny
- alberto-m 5mo ago(minor typo: repeated --> repealed. Sorry for the nitpicking but it confused me when I first read it)
- frollogaston 5mo agoNo that's valid to call out, thanks
- j-bos 5mo agoReminds me of this asian professor getting blocked for promotion, allegedly, on the basis of race, but in a roundabout way. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/professor-sues-texas-university-for-discrimination/ar-AA231vNP https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/professor-sues-texas-unive...
- Georgelemental 5mo agoYes, they falsely classified him as white in order to deny him the promotion (because discriminating against white people is 100% non-controversial in that environment)
- ironman1478 5mo agoI think it's just indians being racist. The person could've put any other non white category and it would've happened.
- mywittyname 5mo agoThey could have easily made test scores a pass/fail per program and not weight higher scores for admission purposes. It achieves the goal of ensuring students have requisite knowledge for the program while not favoring students who are able to ace the test. Or, even better - just expand programs so they can accept more students who pass the test. This would probably improve diversity without artificially restricting access to highish performers.
- lokar 5mo agoTo expand the UC system to accommodate everyone who could do the work would require repealing Prop 13, much harder.