Tim Groseclose is the Adam Smith Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Previously, he was the Hoffenberg Professor American Politics at UCLA, where he held appointments in both the economics and political science departments. Groseclose was a faculty member on UCLA's undergraduate admissions committee in 2006-07, and was a dissenting voice when UCLA administrators and staff took overt steps to reintroduce racial preferences in UCLA’s admissions process. He wrote a book about his experiences: Cheating: An Insider's Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA [
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Richard Sander is the Dukeminier Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA. In his book Mismatch, he documents how the very large racial preferences used by some UC campuses in the early 1990s actually hurt the educational outcomes of many of the Black and Hispanic students the preferences were intended to help. He showed how race-blind policies, which were widely followed at UC from 1998 until 2007, improved minority outcomes, enrollment, and graduation rates, and he documented the politically-driven slide back to covert racial preferences, and the abandonment of transparency, that has become more and more pervasive at the university.