The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it would reverse affirmative action policies established under the Obama administration. Former president Barack Obama’s policies, which outlined ways that schools could legally use race as a factor in admissions decisions, have not been in effect in California since Proposition 209… Though the UC system does seek to promote “qualitative diversity” through alternative methods such as increasing enrollment from low-income families and families with little college experience, these efforts are far less effective at creating ethnic diversity than race-conscious admissions, according to a 2003 UCOP report about the effects of Prop. 209.

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by Madeleine Gregory, The Daily Californian.

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