By Jaryn Crouson | Daily Caller
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has laid the groundwork for schools to skirt the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that banned affirmative action admission policies.
While several universities saw a rise in Asian enrollment and a decrease in black and Latino enrollment following the Supreme Court’s landmark 2023 ruling that banned the use of race as a factor in college admission decisions, UCLA saw an unprecedented rise in “diversity.” The university has openly boasted of its method of outreach toward nonwhite students and change in the admissions process that allows the school to reach its desired ratio of students.
“[T]here is abundant evidence that, since 2007, UCLA’s undergraduate admissions office has been using significant racial preferences in admissions, in direct violation of the California Constitution (as amended by Proposition 209 in 1996),” Richard Sander, a UCLA law professor and Co-Director of the UCLA-RAND Center on Law and Policy, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The school’s behavior has become more brazen over time, and is indeed inviting a legal challenge.”