u/EnzoKosai

At last, the gray lady speaks.

"When the university’s regents adopted the test-blind policy in 2020, some understood that they were choosing not to follow the science. On social media recently, Jelani Nelson, a former chair of electrical engineering and computer sciences at Berkeley, published video clips from the decisive 2020 meeting, at which several regents said they were uncomfortable rejecting the evidence. “I am a believer in data and science,” one said. Another said: “Facts matter. And data does matter.” Ultimately, though, they deferred to their colleagues who wanted to ignore test results. As Professor Nelson wrote, “They succumbed to the fad of the moment.”

When the regents meet this month, they will face a choice. They can acknowledge their error and restore the test requirement, or they can adopt a classic bureaucratic dodge and appoint yet another committee to study a problem that has an evident answer."

Virtue signaling Regents caved to Napolitano. She has been quoted as saying "Unless we're getting sued, we're not doing enough affirmative action." Even then this was violating California's Prop 209. Now UC is also violating SFFA ruling. And hey Janet, plenty of lawsuits now.

If this route is blue, I'd hate to see what yellow or red are. Wish I could post my screenshot but apparently, well why would a subreddit about maps want any screenshots...

"A woman who killed her baby and left the newborn’s body in a Bay Area apartment complex dumpster has been sentenced to six years in a state prison. The identity of the baby, and the baby’s mother, remained a mystery until a DNA breakthrough last year.

...The investigation remained open, and last year detectives used new DNA technology to identify possible parents of the baby. Detectives flew to Denver, where Onduto was living, to obtain a DNA sample; the sample was a parental match for the baby, police said. In addition, the Costco receipt tied Onduto to the crime scene, prosecutors said. “Angela expressed no remorse,” detectives wrote in a charging document.

More. https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/05/east-bay-judge-revokes-medical-license-for-woman-accused-of-drowning-newborn-baby/

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"We support restoring the use of both the verbal and math aspects of SAT/ACT to undergraduate admissions. As our colleagues’ letter noted, SAT/ACT-math will benefit STEM education and we add that social sciences, humanities, and other fields will also benefit from the use of standardized testing in admissions, including the reading and writing components of the tests. Reasonable people can debate how much weight SAT/ACT should carry relative to other parts of applications and policies may vary by campus and degree program. However, it is unreasonable to require all undergraduate degree programs at all campuses to be test-blind in an era of K-12 grade inflation and the growing use of AI in admissions essays.

As faculty, we are best positioned to see the consequences of six years of test-blind admissions. It is also our decision to make under the principles of shared governance. These principles were respected when UCOP requested [PDF] that the Academic Senate investigate the role of testing in admissions policy. The Senate Testing Task Force’s report called for the continued use of SAT/ACT in admissions and this was endorsed by the systemwide Assembly of the Academic Senate in a unanimous 51-to-0 vote. A month later, the UC Regents considered the Task Force’s research, but ultimately voted against the Academic Senate’s recommendation and discontinued the use of the SAT/ACT in undergraduate admissions.

Therefore, we call for the UC Academic Senate and the UC Regents to give up the failed experiment of the last six years and return to including both the math and the verbalreasoning components of SAT/ACT as part of undergraduate admissions."

https://ucstudentsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-06-11-SS-H-P-SAT-Letter.pdf

Napolitano and the Regents damaged countless lives.

https://ucstudentsuccess.org/

"We first want to thank our mathematics colleagues for explaining the harmful impact that a test-blind admissions policy has had on math and other STEM education at the University of California. Some of us did not sign the mathematics letter because it was framed as a statement from STEM faculty, but we agree with its conclusions. As a complement to their focus on STEM preparation, we would like to highlight concerns from our own fields.

...we call for the UC Academic Senate and the UC Regents to give up the failed experiment of the last six years and return to including both the math and the verbal reasoning components of SAT/ACT as part of undergraduate admissions."

See https://ucstudentsuccess.org/ and in particular the eloquent letters laying out the tightly reasoned faculty position.

https://ucstudentsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-06-11-SS-H-P-SAT-Letter.pdf

https://ucstudentsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-06-05-STEM-Letter.pdf

Over 500 STEM faculty at the University of California (UC) have signed an open letter exposing the profusion of UC undergrads unprepared for basic instruction in calculus, criticizing the waste of talent it entails, and calling on the Board of Regents to reinstate standardized testing in STEM admissions.

UC (and Cal State) are the last "SAT denier" holdouts in the country. I am glad to see some common sense returning. Notably, they addressed the open letter not only to UC officials but also to "the people of California". Apparently, they doubt this issue can be resolved internally.

https://ucstudentsuccess.org/

Over 500 STEM faculty at the University of California (UC) have signed an open letter exposing the profusion of UC undergrads unprepared for basic instruction in calculus, criticizing the waste of talent it entails, and calling on the Board of Regents to reinstate standardized testing in STEM admissions.

Their courageous step will doubtless be criticized as racist, as the underprepared applicants are disproportionately Hispanic and Black. In reality it augurs a return to the non-racial assessment of STEM merit, where UC was once the world’s exemplar.

I am glad to see some common sense returning. Notably, they addressed the open letter not only to UC officials but also to "the people of California". Apparently, they doubt this issue can be resolved internally.

https://ucstudentsuccess.org/