The fruits of another woke revolution are here—and even California academics are fed up.
In May 2020, weeks into the nation’s shutdown and days before George Floyd’s death, the University of California regents voted that applicants to the prestigious public higher education system would no longer need to submit SAT or ACT test scores.
“I believe the test is a racist test,” said Jonathan “Jay” Sures, one of the regents. “There’s no two ways about it.”
The initial vote, which was cast during the tenure of former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as UC president, suspended the test score requirement through 2024. A lawsuit settled in 2021 required the University of California system, which serves over 230,000 undergraduate students, to not consider standardized tests for admissions through 2025.
But now, over 900 members of the University of California faculty have had enough, according to the UC Student Success site, which hosts an explosive new letter.
Hundreds of professors, including dozens of STEM department chairs, ask in the letter that the UC system start requiring STEM major applicants to submit either math SAT or ACT scores.
