The 74 covers the University of California’s plan to revisit its standardized testing requirement for admissions.
The article includes reactions from Just Equations Executive Director Pamela Burdman and Andrea McChristian, who question whether the use of the SAT and ACT is at odds with the university’s mission and call for greater transparency in the system’s process for evaluating whether or not to reinstate the tests.
“If you’re saying that as a public institution you want to represent the diversity of student voices and student experience in the state, yet you’re putting in this screener in the admissions process—which has been shown to lessen and suppress that very diversity that you want to have within your class—then something’s not adding up there,” McChristian said.
“The abandonment of the originally announced plan came on the eve of today’s regents meeting—in which the public had its first opportunity to comment on the idea of reinstating admissions tests—and amid intense pressure from a group of faculty demanding that the regents take an immediate vote, with no time to inquire into the evidence,” Burdman said.
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