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2-3-2025 SARD files federal lawsuit against University of California. Read our complaint here. [Link]
2-16-2025 Sunday Morning Newsmakers interviews Prof. Sander. [Link] Interviewer: The other side is going to say, All right, if we do away with preferences like you want, do you really want 99% of the kids to be whites or Asians and the rest not represented? Is that what you want? Prof. Sander: Absolutely not. And if you look at what happened in the early years after California voters said they wanted a race-neutral system, diversity increased. But it was diversity based on better outreach, based on paying attention to the pipeline, and based on admitting students to those parts of the UC system where each student was well matched with his peers. What we saw was that the number of black graduates from UC doubled after Prop 209 was passed and during these early years from about 1998 to 2006 when the university was pretty race-neutral. And administrators just ignored that evidence and said, No, no, we need to make state legislators and other pressure groups happy by reintroducing preferences even when there’s no evidence that they work.
8–21-2024 At M.I.T., Black and Latino Enrollment Drops Sharply After Affirmative Action Ban - [Link]
Edward Blum, the founder of Students for Fair Admissions, the organization that successfully sued to end race-conscious admissions, welcomed the decision as proof that the Supreme Court ruling was having a positive effect. “Every student admitted to the class of 2028 at M.I.T. will know that they were accepted only based upon their outstanding academic and extracurricular achievements, not the color of their skin,” Mr. Blum said in an email.
7-31-2024 UC admits largest, most diverse class ever for fall 2024 - [Link]
The University of California admitted the largest and most diverse class of undergraduates for fall 2024, opening the doors of the vaunted public research institution to more California low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students of color, according to preliminary data … Why did the UC’s demographics not change like MIT’s? SARD is demanding transparency from the UC. We infer their continued defiance of the Supreme Court, and Prop. 209. 4–17-2024 Everything is Relative in UC Admissions- [Link]
A recent SF Chronicle story and accompanying graphics about UC admissions drew a lot of comment. Particular attention was paid to the success of Mission High whose students gained admission to UC Berkeley not only at a far higher rate than students of Lowell High, but at a higher rate than any other high school in the state... The success of Mission’s students in gaining admission to UCs, and UC Berkeley in particular, defies easy explanation. They are not as academically prepared as the students from Lowell.
8-4-2013 Confessions of an Application Reader - [Link] My job as an application reader — evaluating the potential success of so many hopeful students — had been one of the most serious endeavors of my academic career. But the opaque and secretive nature of the process had made me queasy. Wouldn’t better disclosure of how decisions are made help families better position their children? Does Proposition 209 serve merely to push race underground? Can the playing field of admissions ever be level? For me, the process presented simply too many moral dilemmas. In the end, I chose not to participate again. A glimpse into the methods the UC uses to carry out its concealed social engineering agenda. SARD invites UC whistleblowers to clear their conscience, using our anonymous online document drop.
6-29-2023 Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky teaches his students how the UC secretly practices racial discrimination in faculty hiring.
"What I mean by unstated affirmative action is: what if the college or university doesn't tell anybody, doesn't make any public statements but still wants to... I'll give you an example from our law school, but if ever I'm deposed I'm going to deny I said this to you. When we do faculty hiring, we're quite conscious that diversity is important to us, and we say diversity is important - it's fine to say that, but I'm very careful when we have a faculty appointments committee meeting. Anytime somebody says you know we should really prefer this candidate or this candidate, because this person would add diversity... Don't say that! You can think it, you can vote it, but our discussions are not privileged, so don't ever articulate that. That's what you're doing. Well that works more easily with regard to faculty hiring... with regard to student admissions becomes more difficult because it's a statistical measure..."