California lawmakers have sent the governor a package of reforms sparked by the recent college admissions scandal
, including a bill approved Wednesday that requires special admits at public universities to be approved by three administrators.federal authorities charged 50 people
The state Assembly on Wednesday gave final legislative approval to a bill from McCarty that would California State University officials to have at least three senior administrators approve special admissions starting in the 2020-21 academic year. The bill, which is based in part on recommendations by a University of California audit, requests that the standards also be adopted by the UC system, which is semi-autonomous.
The measure sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom also requires that students admitted for athletic or fine arts programs participate in the programs for at least a year. “As the preeminent public higher education institution, we hold ourselves to the highest standards and have been taking proactive steps to strengthen our admissions practices and procedures, including admission by exception,” McBride said.
“If we’re allowing CalGrants and other state-funded benefits to go toward a school, we need to ensure every applicant has a level playing field during the application process,” Ting said. McCarty noted some of the students involved in the recent scandal were admitted after others fraudulently took their admissions tests for them or“For every student admitted through bribery and fraud, there was an honest and talented student that was rejected,” McCarty said.
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