U.S. Probing Bias Charges at UCLA
Investigators from the U.S. Department of Education came to UCLA this week to investigate possible bias against Asians in undergraduate and graduate admissions procedures. The department’s Office for Civil Rights officials will be reviewing records at the Westwood campus and interviewing UCLA students and administrators.
If UCLA is found to have violated civil rights laws and refuses to change its procedures, it could lose some or all of its federal funding, officials said. Harvard University faces a similar probe.
According to a Department of Education announcement, eight investigators will be at UCLA for up to three weeks, and the results of their research will be announced in a few months. Thomas Lifka, UCLA’s assistant vice chancellor for student academic services, said the school would cooperate in the probe, but is “reasonably confident” that no significant violations will be found.
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