Cal-Berkeley race-based scholarship, hiring policy under fire
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The $20 million fund unveiled by a top California university last month to endow scholarships for African-American students and to hire diverse faculty is just the latest attempt to get around a state law barring schools from using racial preferences in admissions, according to critics, who are vowing yet another legal battle.
University of California-Berkeley's "African-American Initiative" would raise funds from private non-profits to fund “a comprehensive effort to address the underrepresentation of African-American students, faculty and staff at our university, and improve the climate for those who are here now and all who will join our community in the future.” The money would go to scholarships for black students, the hiring of race-specific clinical psychologists and fostering a more diverse faculty and senior management, according to the school.
Problem: The scholarship fund is an end-run around Proposition 209, the 1996 law barring state institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity for public employment, contracting and education.
Former UCal board of regents member Ward Connerly, a conservative African-American who is considered one of the architects of Prop 209, said the initiative appears to be illegal. I guess it doesn't matter to liberals when they break the law if "its the right thing to do." Gimme a break!
