Posted on 05/05/2024 4:51:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In 1996, Californians voted, 55 to 45 percent, to ban the use of affirmative action in admissions to state schools and in state employment. In 2020, Californians voted to maintain the ban by an even wider margin, 57 to 43 percent. Last year, the United States Supreme Court struck down college affirmative action policies on the grounds they violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
The clear message from the people and the Court is that admission should be based upon merit. But those running the University of California (UC) maintain their obsession with race and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). They are undeterred in their mission to enforce equity via affirmative action. Rather than complying with the law and the will of the people, they search for loopholes to achieve the racial balancing they deem ideal for the shaping of society.
The most recent example comes from its San Diego campus (UCSD) which implemented a rule that discriminates against students whose parents make more than a certain amount of money or who went to college. It just so happens that this rule greatly advantages black and Latino students. In a nice side benefit for the administrators, it hurts Asians, who are already overrepresented at the UCs (as well as most universities, as addressed in the Supreme Court case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which specifically addressed discrimination against Asian students.)
Beginning next year, certain “selective” majors (such as biology and most engineering degrees, including computer science) will have a special selection criteria at UCSD. “The selection criteria for entry to the major will consider academic achievement in the specified screening courses and will also be aligned with UC San Diego’s priorities of serving California residents, first-generation college students, and students from low-income families.” Thus, UCSD, without any...
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Hey, Sergio. Did you earn it?
These rules apply only to students at UCSD who wish to switch majors into one of the selective majors. The four things that will get you a point in the scoring rubric are
3.0 GPA
California resident
Pell Grant
First generation student
And it’s explicitly stated in all other colleges that transfer to the Jacobs Engineering school from a non-engineering college will be met with a big fat NO.
Except when you’re part of the wink-wink “first generation” gang which is a proxy for illegal alien.
What’s fun is to go back and look at the people who built the UC’s, especially Irvine and SD. Blindingly White. You can see these pictures on the net in all sorts of videos and historical sites.
Does anyone think they spent that money and effort to hand it over to the offspring of Mexico? Or Asia, for that matter?
The college administrators will discriminate in any and all imaginable ways they cdn get away with. Other than academic merit
Wait until a plane load of college football players with DEI pilots goes down with no survivors.
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