Yesterday we posted about the open letter from STEM faculty asking that the SAT be reinstated for admission of students intending to go into STEM fields. In response, the chair of the Academic Council (the Academic Senate's systemwide entity, released the statement below - which, to be blunt, is really an evasive non-statement. All it says is that BOARS is thinking about admissions issues, something that is always true and by itself means nothing.
Statement from UC Academic Senate Chair Ahmet Palazoglu in response to letter from UC STEM faculty
UC Office of the President, May 27, 2026
UC Academic Senate Chair Ahmet Palazoglu made the following statement May 27:
In light of concerns raised by UC faculty about student preparedness for undergraduate study, in March I called upon our systemwide faculty Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS) to address timely topics tied to students’ college readiness and UC’s admissions process. BOARS is in the process of proposing a roadmap of policy work and partnership-building with other state and K-12 education leaders in the next academic year and beyond.
Here is what a hypothetical real statement would say:
In light of concerns raised by UC faculty about restoring the SAT as one criterion of admissions, I am forming an emergency subcommittee of BOARS to review these concerns over the summer and issue an interim report as a discussion item for the Regents meetings in September.
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