UC & Other Universities Support Harvard

From The Dartmouth: [Dartmouth] signed onto an amicus brief filed July 22 with the First Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Harvard University’s April lawsuit against the Trump Administration. Thirty-five other colleges and universities also signed the brief, including all Ivy League universities except Harvard. In the ongoing case, the Trump administration is appealing a September 2025 ruling in favor of Harvard after the administration froze $2.2 billion in federal grants because the university refused to comply with federal demands to make institutional changes such as reforming admissions and hiring practices, shutting down diversity, equity and inclusion practices and addressing antisemitism “or other bias” in campus programs. 

The brief argues that “even temporary cuts” to federal research funding could have “permanent effects” which “endangers” the “life-changing and history-altering innovations” that arise from “basic research” conducted at colleges and universities... Amici institutions listed advancements in “scientific progress” made possible by federal funding — such as the computer, DNA sequencing, the pacemaker and the “decades-long collaboration among academia, government and industry” which produced the internet — as “enormous long-term benefits” of university research...

Full story at https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026/08/flavin-dartmouth-signs-brief-in-support-of-harvard-in-research-funding-lawsuit-against-trump-administration. 

List in image above and brief at:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca1.53667/gov.uscourts.ca1.53667.00108480602.0.pdf.

Straws in the Wind - Part 341 (Let's just play Pomp & Circumstance and go home)

From Inside Higher Ed: The Rutgers University at New Brunswick School of Engineering canceled a pro-Palestinian alumnus as its convocation speaker after, the university says, some graduating students complained about his social media posts. In March, the school’s website published an “Alumni Spotlight” interview with Rami Elghandour, chairman and chief executive officer of biotechnology company Arcellx. The piece touted his social justice and humanitarian advocacy and noted he was an executive producer of The Voice of Hind Rajab, an Oscar-nominated film about a Gazan girl killed by Israeli forces in the recent war.

Elghandour was set to speak at the school’s May 15 convocation, but the school canceled. In a statement to Inside Higher Ed, the university said the “School of Engineering was recently informed that some graduating students would not attend their graduation ceremony due to concerns about the invited speaker’s social media posts, including one that shared an inflammatory claim.” ...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/05/07/rutgers-disinvites-grad-speaker-after-he-criticizes-israel.

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From the Jewish Journal: When Georgetown Law School announced recently that Dr. Morton Schapiro, Professor and President Emeritus of Northwestern University, would be its commencement speaker, Interim Dean Joshua C. Teitelbaum noted that Schapiro is “highly informed about the challenges facing colleges and universities today,” and that “there are few who can speak to it with as much clarity and insight as he can.”

...[But] in his Jewish Journal column, Schapiro has written about a range of subjects, including the need for hope and optimism and improving the public discourse. ...He has also expressed supportive views of Israel. That was a bridge too far for a group of law students... The outcry became loud enough that Schapiro could only imagine what was reserved for him on the day of the address. ...He felt he had little choice but to withdraw...

Full story at https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/columnist/editors-note/388524/georgetown-commencementspeaker-mort-schapiro-backs-out-after-firestorm-caused-by-his-jewish-journal-columns/.

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Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrzApHZUUF0.

Straws in the Wind - Part 268

From the Chronicle of Higher Education: ...New York University will begin a new initiative aimed at getting students to spend less time on their phones. It’s called NYU IRL (short for “in real life”), and it spans the university’s Manhattan, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai campuses, where students will be enticed to enter “device-free zones" ...NYU IRL, which Linda G. Mills, NYU’s president, announced earlier this year, includes new resources for faculty to try “device optimization” in their classrooms, such as making it a featured topic in the university’s faculty learning exchange week, which is happening now. NYU will also host in-person events like a “supper club” in its dining halls.

To mark the beginning of the effort, NYU professor and author Jonathan Haidt is hosting a “fireside chat” early next month to talk through his bestselling book, The Anxious Generation. The 2024 book argues that the rise in smartphone usage in childhood over the last decade has contributed directly to the rise in mental illness in younger generations. Mills cites Haidt’s findings as a major inspiration for the new program...

Full story at https://www.chronicle.com/article/nyu-wants-students-to-put-down-their-phones-will-they.

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From the NY Times: The Defense Department has decided to cut academic ties with nearly two dozen top universities and think tanks as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign against what he calls anti-American values and “wokeness.” ...In a video published to social media* ...Mr. Hegseth denounced the institutions in blistering language, calling them politically liberal institutions with “wicked ideologies” that were indoctrinating U.S. service members. He said that, beginning in the new school year in September, the Defense Department would ban service members from attending those universities.

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*https://x.com/secwar/status/2027474502876070386.

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In addition to Harvard, which was banned earlier this month, the Defense Department said the banned institutions would include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, George Washington, Tufts, St. Louis and Carnegie Mellon, as well as the College of William & Mary, Middlebury College and Queen’s University in Ontario.

When Mr. Hegseth cut ties with Harvard, it was seen as part of a wider pressure campaign by the Trump administration to force the university to cut a deal with the government. But some of the universities that were banned on Friday have already agreed to a laundry list of demands from the Trump administration as part of an effort to remake the culture of higher education. The Defense Department said it would also cut ties with seven high-profile think tanks in Washington known for their defense and national security analysis: the Center for Strategic and International Studies, New America, the Brookings Institution, the Atlantic Council, the Center for a New American Security, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Henry L. Stimson Center...

Mr. Hegseth, who served as an infantry officer with the National Guard, graduated from Harvard’s Kennedy School in 2013 with a master’s degree in public policy... The Defense Department said it was considering replacing the programs with those at institutions including state universities and conservative Christian schools like Liberty University and Hillsdale College...

Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/pentagon-universities-think-tanks.html.

Foreign Funding

The US Dept. of Education has released a list of foreign funding of US universities in 2025. As can be seen above, having a med school helps in obtaining such funding. But prestige also helps. (MIT doesn't have a med school.) 

UCLA ranks as number 23 with over $750 million.

Source: Section 117 Foreign Gift and Contract Public Transparency Dashboard:

https://www.foreignfundinghighered.gov/.

Postponed

UC-Berkeley chancellor Lyons, along with heads of CUNY and Georgetown was due to be a witness at a Congressional hearing today on "Antisemitism in Higher Education: Examining the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology." However, for reasons unknown, the hearing has been postponed.

No future date is given.

See https://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=412535.

Straws in the Wind - Part 14

From the NY Times: Yale University’s famed endowment has been trying to offload one of the largest portfolios of private equity investments ever in a single sale, a move that reflects the pressures on both Wall Street and higher education under the Trump administration. The Ivy League school has sought buyers for up to $6 billion in stakes in private equity and venture funds, according to three people briefed on the sales process, amid uncertainty about its federal funding and the reality that many of these investments have not delivered the outsize returns that Yale expected.

Yale is now close to completing a sale of roughly $3 billion of the portfolio and is selling the assets at a slight discount, one of the people said. “This is a big deal,” said Sandeep Dahiya, a professor of finance at Georgetown University who has conducted research on the performance of endowments. “The investor that was the lead architect of investing in the private equity markets is pulling in its horns.” ...

The sale comes at a critical juncture for universities. While President Trump has spared Yale the kind of punitive funding cuts he has leveled against other Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale is grappling with decreases in federal research funding that have hit higher education broadly. Republicans in Congress have also proposed steep tax increases on endowments...

Yale is on track to spend roughly $2.1 billion from its endowment in 2025, which accounts for just over one-third of its annual budget...

At least two other large universities are preparing to sell some private equity assets, and dozens of U.S. and Asian pension funds are also looking at exits. Lawrence Siegel, a former director of research at the Ford Foundation, called Yale’s move “a wake-up call” for investors. “It’s also Yale trying to get out before everyone else,” Mr. Siegel said.

Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/yale-endowment-private-equity-trump.html.

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Note: Yale's endowment stood at $41.4 billion at the end of June 2024. Source:

https://news.yale.edu/2024/10/25/yale-reports-investment-return-fiscal-2024.

New Partnership Agreement

From Forbes: The National Education Equity Lab, an education justice nonprofit, has enlisted more prestigious universities to offer college courses and supports to students in some of the nation’s poorest high schools. The new partners include Morehouse College and the University of California System. They join Princeton, Stanford, Georgetown, Cornell, Wesleyan University, Barnard College, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Spelman College, Brown University, Howard University, and Arizona State University, all of which were early providers in the Ed Equity network.

Founded in 2019 by Leslie Cornfeld, a former federal civil rights prosecutor and later an advisor to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and two U.S. Secretaries of Education, Ed Equity Lab has quickly become one of the nation’s leading models for preparing low-income and underrepresented minority students to enroll and succeed in college. It’s helping fill the college pipeline with talented students who might have otherwise never believed they could succeed at college. The Lab follows a simple plan, a first-ever national model: deliver and support college credit-bearing courses taught by faculty from a network of leading colleges and universities in teacher-led high school classrooms, at no cost to students.

Here’s how it works. School districts serving low-income students are invited to participate, and they offer the opportunity to principals in Title 1 high schools. Principals pick the high school teachers who assist the college faculty in offering the course, and they also select the students - typically about 25 per course. Many Ed Equity Lab high schools offer multiple courses – meaning students can graduate with a semester or more of transferable credits under their belts, resulting in substantial tuition savings...

Commenting on his university’s new partnership with the Ed Equity Lab, University of California president Michael V. Drake said, “The University of California is committed to expanding access to higher education for students of all backgrounds. We are proud to collaborate with the National Education Equity Lab to further that goal - and reach more students than ever before.”

Full story at https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2023/04/21/university-of-california-morehouse-join-other-top-schools-in-national-effort-to-close-college-opportunity-gap/.

Sometimes No (US) News is Good News - Part 5 (UCLA Caves)

As blog readers will know, we have been tracking the various law schools that have decided to be non-participants in the US News and World Report rankings. UCLA's law dean initially was reluctant to join the others.* But apparently, the bandwagon effect has now prevailed. Northwestern has also jumped on. From the LA Times:

UCLA Law School announced Tuesday it is joining the growing boycott of U.S. News & World Report‘s rankings, saying the methodology the publication uses penalizes institutions that encourage public law careers and seek to enroll students from diverse and marginalized communities. UCLA’s decision amplifies what is shaping into the biggest challenge yet to the college rankings industry, following similar decisions in the last week by other top law schools to shun the publication. At least half of U.S. News’ top 20 law schools have announced they will not participate in the rankings because of longstanding issues with the methodology. In addition to UCLA, they include Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Georgetown, Michigan, Duke and Northwestern...

“The rankings disincentivize schools from supporting public service careers for their graduates, building a diverse student population, and awarding need-based financial aid,” UCLA Law School interim Dean Russell Korobkin said in a message to the law school community. “UCLA Law does all of these things, but honoring our core values comes at a cost in rankings points.” ...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-22/ucla-law-school-joins-boycott-of-u-s-news-world-report-rankings.

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Sometimes No (US) News is Good News - Part 4

We have been tracking the law schools that are pulling out of cooperation with the US News and World Report ratings system.* As we have noted, UCLA seems reluctant to pull out. But more schools that are pulling out have been reported since our last posting: Michigan and Duke are the latest. So the full listing so far is Harvard, Yale, UC-Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan, and Duke. From Higher Ed Dive:

...Michigan Law Dean Mark West credited Yale University’s dean, Heather Gerken, for being first among a string of top law schools’ leaders by saying Wednesday the institution will not participate in the rankings amid concerns their methodology discourages support for public-interest careers and low-income students. “Although we have had sustained discussion for years within the Quad about parting ways with the rankings, it would have been difficult for us to take this step alone,” West wrote in a public letter...

Full story at https://www.highereddive.com/news/stanford-michigan-duke-northwestern-us-news-rankings-join-yale-harvard-berkeley-columbia-georgetown/637123/.

As others pull out, UCLA might well feel pressure to reconsider staying in.

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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/11/sometimes-no-us-news-is-good-news-part-3.html; https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/11/sometimes-no-us-news-is-good-news-part-2.html; https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/11/sometimes-no-us-news-is-good-news.html.

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UPDATE/Correction: Columbia and Georgetown should have been included in the list of law schools pulling out of the ratings.

Sometimes No (US) News is Good News - Part 3

Even less news

Although UCLA's law school is apparently reluctant to join the rush away from US News and World Report ratings, Columbia, Stanford, and Georgetown have now pulled out. As our prior posts have noted, they are joining UC-Berkeley, Harvard, and Yale.* From Inside Higher Ed

The law schools of Columbia, Georgetown and Stanford Universities all announced on Friday that they would leave the U.S. News & World Report rankings... 

A statement from Jenny Martinez, dean at Stanford, said, “We agree with many of the points that other schools have presented about how the rankings methodology distorts incentives in ways that are harmful to legal education as a whole. For example, the U.S. News ranking methodology inappropriately discourages public service by treating students whose schools provide fellowships to support such work much the same as it treats students who are unemployed. In a world where interdisciplinary expertise is increasingly important, it also treats students pursuing another advanced degree, such as an M.B.A. or Ph.D., as unemployed.” ...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/11/21/columbia-georgetown-and-stanford-law-schools-quit-%E2%80%98us-news%E2%80%99.

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We are not alone - Part 2

In an earlier posting, we noted that another UC campus - Santa Barbara - was joining UCLA in tightening up its coronavirus rules.* But like the disease, the tightening up has spread: 

From Inside Higher Ed:

The University of California, Los Angeles, restored its indoor mask mandate last week, joining the University of Hawai‘i system, Pennsylvania State University (for both the main campus and 13 others), and other colleges and universities. “The past few weeks have revealed a consistent rise in COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County and on our campus. Last week alone, UCLA had close to 870 new cases, which, per the UCLA COVID-19 Pivot Matrix, would place us at the ‘severe’ level,” said a letter announcing the mandate.

The letter outlined limited cases where masks may be removed: performance arts rehearsals and performances, indoor dining, and when alone in one's room. At commencement, June 10-12, all attendees must wear masks indoors, but speakers may remove their masks for their addresses, and graduates “may momentarily remove their masks while walking across the stage and while being photographed on or adjacent to the stage,” the letter said. (UCLA operates on a quarter system, and the spring quarter classes are not over until June 3.) Other institutions that have announced mask mandates have already had commencement and are in summer sessions, or their renewed mandates were announced just prior to commencement. UCLA also said weekly testing for COVID-19 will continue until June 15.

For colleges, indoor mask mandates were a key part of their response during earlier peaks of the pandemic. The lifting of mask mandates was seen by many as a sign that the pandemic was behind us. But most of the colleges are citing rising COVID-19 cases as a reason for their actions. Here are some of the colleges restoring mask mandates:

• Penn State University. On Friday, the university restored mask mandates for the university’s main campus and the Penn State campuses at Beaver, Greater Allegheny, New Kensington and Schuylkill. The university previously announced that masks were required at the campuses in Abington, Behrend, Brandywine, Great Valley, Hazleton, Lehigh Valley, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. The College of Medicine also continues to require masks indoors. Penn State said it acted on the basis of guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on county COVID-19 rates.
• University of Hawai‘i system. The system restored its mask mandate for the entire university system except when people are working in a room alone or at least six feet from others. “The indoor face mask requirement will remain in place and be re-evaluated when the level of COVID-19 transmission in the state decreases,” the university said.
• University of Pittsburgh. The university on Friday cited the CDC in restoring the requirements for the Pittsburgh, Greensburg and Titusville campuses. Masks remain optional on the Johnstown and Bradford campuses.
• University of Delaware. The university imposed an indoor mask requirement last week, citing “rising numbers of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations around the country, including in Delaware over the past week.” The university permitted people to be outdoors without a mask, but administrators at commencement appeared with masks outdoors...

All of those colleges acted last week. Some of the colleges that acted earlier to restore indoor mask mandates include Gallaudet, Georgetown, Howard, Johns Hopkins and Rice Universities; and the University of Rochester.  California State University, Los Angeles never removed its mask mandate.

Rochester had promised when instituting its mandate on April 15 to update the policy in early May. On May 4, Rochester announced, “Campus health officials believe indoor masking has reduced the number of COVID infections among students in recent days. Based on the effectiveness of the mask requirement in returning COVID cases to more manageable levels, as well as the still relatively high rate of COVID infections in the greater Rochester community and in New York State—the current face mask policy will remain in place for now, including at indoor commencement ceremonies and events.”

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/05/31/ucla-university-hawai%E2%80%98i-penn-state-adopt-mask-mandates.

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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/05/we-are-not-alone.html.

Uh Oh Omicron! Are We Going Back to the Future? - Part 3

More universities are reporting outbreaks and changing plans:

Georgetown, GW, NYU and Princeton Change Course

Universities switch final exams and cancel most in-person events.

By Scott Jaschik, December 16, 2021, Inside Higher Ed

Georgetown, New York and Princeton Universities on Wednesday all announced changes in their plans for the close of the semester due to surges of COVID-19 infections on their campuses. The decisions followed Cornell University, which this week made all final exams online because of 496 active COVID cases among students.

Increase in Cases at Georgetown

A statement from Georgetown said, “We are experiencing a notable and concerning increase in COVID-19 cases on our campuses this week, and we are taking several immediate steps to help protect the Georgetown University community. Yesterday marked the largest one-day total for COVID-19 cases within our community, with 34 Georgetown community members testing positive, and the positivity rate on our campuses this week to date, 2.36 percent, is the highest we have seen.” The university is not changing plans for final exams. But it is closing the campus fitness center and requiring all eating to be done in dormitories. “All indoor university-sponsored events on campus, including holiday parties, need to be moved outdoors or canceled, and all other events and social gatherings should be held virtually, ” the letter said.

George Washington University announced that all final exams scheduled for Friday and after would be online only. In addition, it said that faculty members have the right to switch exams today to online only. A letter from the university's president, Thomas J. LeBlanc, and other officials also said that “all in-person social gatherings and events are cancelled.”

“We understand that this news comes at an already stressful time during finals and other scheduled end-of-semester activities. At this time, we have not made any changes regarding spring semester. We will continue to monitor COVID-19 transmission among our community members and in the region and will update you with more information soon,” the letter said.

Source: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/12/16/georgetown-nyu-princeton-adopt-changes-because-covid-19.

Uniting - Part 2

Staff scientists at the University of California set to form a first-of-its-kind union

By Rebecca Robbins, 4-3-19, STAT

SAN FRANCISCO — There are 5,000 of them within the University of California system, with titles like project scientist or professional researcher. They’re not on the tenure track, but they power one of the world’s most prolific research institutions.

Now, organizers are in the final stages of setting up a first-of-its-kind union exclusively for academic researchers who are not faculty, postdocs, or graduate students. They expect later this spring to begin negotiating with their employer, the UC system, on what would be a landmark contract.

The effort here is attracting attention beyond the West Coast amid a nationwide wave of academic organizing. In 2018 alone, graduate workers unionized at Brown, Georgetown, and Harvard. So did postdocs at the University of Washington. And at Columbia, the university agreed to start bargaining with unionized postdocs and graduate workers.

The new union for staff scientists in the UC system is called Academic Researchers United, or ARU for short. It’s being set up as a unit within UAW Local 5810, a union that represents over 6,500 postdocs within the UC system. It’s one of more than 600 local unions of the United Auto Workers, a traditionally blue-color union that in recent years has increasingly organized academics.

One impetus for the organizing push around ARU: Researchers who had previously been unionized postdocs felt that they had lost certain benefits upon becoming staff scientists, according to Anke Schennink, president of UAW Local 5810 and a former postdoc at UC Davis...

Full story at https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/03/staff-scientists-at-the-university-of-california-set-to-form-a-first-of-its-kind-union/

Jerry Brown Haunting SF Chronicle Editorial Board?

Jerry Brown famously said it on vetoing a bill by State Senator Leland Yee that would have fined parents for letting their kids ski without helmets.* Of course, Yee later had a very big problem with the law that landed him in prison. But that's another story. Google "Yee" and "Shrimp Boy" if you don't know the story.

In any case, the San Francisco Chronicle seems to have picked up Brown's theme in a recent editorial about the admissions scandal:

Editorial: The college admissions cheating scandal is horrible, but Sacramento doesn’t need to get involved

San Francisco Chronicle, 3-30-19

William “Rick” Singer leaves federal court in Boston on March 12 after being charged with racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice in an alleged college admissions scam. As the scam net widens, the California Legislature is weighing new bills to combat admissions fraud.

The still-unfolding college admissions scandal, which exposed how a nonprofit educational foundation helped rich celebrities and powerful financiers bribe college coaches and exam proctors to secure places for their progeny at the some of the country’s most exclusive colleges and universities, is a shocking morality play about wealth, privilege and entitlement in America.

When the scheme was uncovered, it triggered a strong response. Alleged mastermind Rick Singer has pleaded guilty to serious federal charges, including racketeering conspiracy and money laundering. He faces up to 65 years in prison.

Singer’s cooperating with authorities, which means it’s far less likely that many of the parents who were charged in the scam — including celebrity actors Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, along with wealthy Bay Area residents including vineyard owner Austine Huneeus and former private equity executive William McGlashan — will be able to get off scot-free.

The U.S. Department of Education has notified the eight universities named in the scandal — Stanford, Yale, Wake Forest, the University of San Diego, Georgetown, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin and UCLA — that it’s opened an investigation into their admissions practices for possible violations of federal financial aid laws.

So why does Sacramento feel the need to weigh in?

On Thursday, state lawmakers announced a new package of six bills in response to the disgusting admissions spectacle. While at least one of the bills in the package is well worth considering, the overall result is a fine example of Sacramento overreach.

The six proposals include AB697, which would bar universities that offer legacy admissions from receiving Cal Grants. AB1383 would require more approvals for candidates, often athletes, who are admitted “by exception.” An as-yet-untitled nonbinding resolution would recommend that the University of California and California State University systems phase out the SAT and ACT exams in admissions.

There’s also AB1342, which would require private admissions coaches to pay an annual registration fee with the state. AB136 would prevent those charged in the scandal from taking a tax deduction for their phony donations. The sixth proposal would direct the state auditor to look for potential fraud within California’s public university systems.

It’s hard to argue with AB136. There’s just no circumstance under which those accused of this crime should be allowed to use the alleged fraud amounts as a tax write-off.

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But the other bills are misguided meddling.

California’s public universities can make their own decisions about admission requirements. How would a new state database have prevented this mess? As currently written, AB697 could backfire badly on lower-income students, who are the primary recipients of the Cal Grant program. Universities aren’t going to stop enrolling wealthy legacy students, so let’s not encourage them to reject low-income ones.

The lesson from the admissions scandal is that people with too much money and power will abuse their privileges unless checked.

But in this case, they were checked. The system is working.

There’s no need to pass legislation when accountability will provide the right outcome. Let this sordid tale work its way through the courts, Sacramento — not every new crime deserves a new law.

Source: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-The-college-admissions-cheating-13728349.php
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*https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/09/08/jerry-browns-veto-messages-not-every-problem-deserves-a-law/