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December 2006 > School News
Stern, Other UC Professors Urge University to Open Up Admissions Process
A group of UC professors including GSE Professor David Stern, has proposed that UC’s admission procedures be revised so that applications from more of California’s graduating seniors will be read.
“There are many students who are simply invisible to UC,” said Stern, who co-authored a paper, “UC Eligibility: The Quest for Excellence and Diversity,” along with UC Santa Barbara Education Professor Michael Brown, UC Davis Engineering Professor Mark Rashid and UC Santa Cruz Education Professor Trish Stoddard.
The proposal was presented at a daylong conference at UC Berkeley organized by Boalt Hall law school, marking the 10th anniversary of Proposition 209, which banned the use of race in deciding public school admissions and state hiring and contracting.
The paper by Stern and colleagues demonstrates the value of using information from the full application, rather than relying on just the numbers used in the current UC eligibility formula. For the past five years, all University of California campuses have been doing whole-file review of applicants. The authors said they hope their report will prompt discussion leading to consideration of new policies by UC’s Board of Regents.
“We’re not trying to commit to a clear solution yet. We’re trying to open a discussion,” Stern told the San Francisco Chronicle. “Campuses have all developed comprehensive review. We think they can make more accurate judgments about admissions than the current simple formula does.”
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