The Roadmap: Now you see it...

Blog readers may have noticed an article in today's LA Times on the SAT issue. Specifically, the article notes that just as the Regents meetings are about to begin, including issues of admissions criteria, links on the systemwide Academic Senate page to the "roadmap" seem to be disappearing.

The University of California admissions board has voted to rescind — for now — its plan to study whether to resume SAT or ACT requirements in admissions, a move that leaves one of the university’s most closely watched debates unclear a day before the Board of Regents meets in San Francisco... At a Friday meeting, BOARS voted to pull back on the plan, and the links that explained it — which appeared on the UC website late last week — have been removed...

In a statement Monday evening, UC Academic Senate Chair Ahmet Palazoglu said the senate was “not rescinding its commitment to a comprehensive review of standardized testing in admissions.” The admissions board is a committee of the senate...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-13/uc-suspends-plan-to-reconsider-sat-in-admissions.

Yours truly is not a fan of disappearing documents. And it turns out the old links are still available. So, we have put the roadmap plan at a new location where it won't disappear:

Executive Summary:

https://ia600601.us.archive.org/32/items/blog-3rd-qtr-2026/UC-academic-senate-boars-roadmap-executive%20summary%2006-11-2026.pdf.

Full Roadmap:

https://ia600601.us.archive.org/32/items/blog-3rd-qtr-2026/UC-academic-senate-boars-roadmap-06-05-2026.pdf.