Group Behind Harvard Affirmative Action Case Sues UCLA Medical School for Race Discrimination
“University administrators in their official and personal capacities will face vigorous legal challenges if they use race and racial proxies in the admissions process.”
If you drill down into the details of this story, it’s another case of higher education allegedly committing civil rights violations.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
UCLA Medical School Sued for Race Discrimination by Group Behind Harvard Affirmative Action Case
UCLA medical school was sued for race discrimination on Thursday after whistleblowers alleged that the school holds black and Latino applicants to a lower standard than their white and Asian counterparts, the latest challenge for a beleaguered university already in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.
The complaint is based on multiple Washington Free Beacon reports about the extent of racial preferences at the medical school. It was filed by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), the group whose lawsuit against Harvard University resulted in the Supreme Court decision, in 2023, that outlawed affirmative action in higher education.
In a statement to the Free Beacon, SFFA president Edward Blum framed the lawsuit as a sequel to the Harvard case.
“This lawsuit sends an important message to every institution of higher education: Any school and administrator that uses race and racial proxies in admissions in defiance of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard will be sued,” Blum said. “University administrators in their official and personal capacities will face vigorous legal challenges if they use race and racial proxies in the admissions process.”
The complaint, which was filed jointly with Do No Harm, a group that opposes identity politics in medicine, comes as the Department of Health and Human Services investigates UCLA medical school’s admissions practices as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on race-based programs. That probe was launched almost a year after whistleblowers described a pervasive pattern of race discrimination at the top medical school, where the share of Asian matriculants fell by almost a third in just three years.
The drop coincided with a sharp rise in the number of students failing standardized tests. Concerned that the school’s race-based admissions were pushing UCLA toward an academic crisis, several professors took the extraordinary step of leaking confidential admissions deliberations to the press. Their testimony, which the Free Beacon published last May, provided a granular account of how affirmative action operated at a top medical school, with officials disregarding low grades and test scores in order to push through minority candidates.
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*sigh*
Close the schools. Fire the staff. Raze the buildings. Plow the land. Plant corn.
The system is too broken to fix.
For some reason I’m finding it difficult to comment on the stupidity today. Race based admissions are illegal. They are also unethical. They do not service to the admitted applicants nor to their future patients. Why don’t those administrators understand this?
I think the main problem with rooting out of AA is that there are no personal penalties for those still attempting to implement. These have to be added. A jail sentence or a hefty 6 figure fine might deter the miscreants.
Yes, race based admissions are illegal. And so should affirmative action for legacy admissions of retarded rich white kids based solely on how much money their family gave the college. Nothing to do with merit whatsoever. Just money.
I’ve held that sentiment for my entire adult life. This goes double for what are becoming styrofoam universities. By that, I mean Haa-vahd, Columbia, or other such places where the brand name on the certificate means more than the quality of the eduction received.
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