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 CaseUCLA 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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