Required standardized testing has been suspended until at least fall 2024 for all freshman applicants to the University of California, university officials announced Thursday.
The change was unanimously approved the same day by the University of California Board of Regents. Freshman applicants will not have to take the SAT or ACT tests to be admitted.
University officials said a new test will be created that better assesses the knowledge needed to succeed as a student in the University of California system.
If the new test is not ready for fall 2025 admission, potential students will still not have to take the ACT or SAT.
In the Bay Area, the change will affect students applying for admission to the University of California at Berkeley. It also will impact students applying to the nearby University of California at Santa Cruz.
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I hope it’s a very stringent test, or there will be a lot of students dropping and failing out.
Had an acquaintance years ago who was a leftist associate professor at the University of Washington. Had many political discussions with him. His main theme was the dumbing down of America so minorities could catch up. Seems like Janet Napolitano has the same vision. How much do we pay her I wonder?
Her salary is public record – the Sac Bee has a database. She is leaving the UC system this summer, btw. In 2001, former UC president Richard Atkinson wanted to drop the SATs. There was a lot of furor then, and the result was a change to some of the testing requirements. Full disclosure: I have worked for UC since 1997.
$570,000 a yesr, but thats just base pay… would imagime other factors add @ $200,000 to that
Watch the movie Idiocracy. Feels like we are heading that direction lol.
According to transparentcalifornia.com:
JANET ANN NAPOLITANO
PRESIDENT OF THE UNIV (2014)
Regular pay: $570,000.00
Overtime pay: $0.00
Other pay: $14,611.00
Total pay: $584,611.00
Benefits: $88,456.00
Total pay & benefits: $673,067.00
Keep on dumbing down the requirements for entrance into the UC system and our flagship university system will be flying at half-mast.
Everybody is a Winner Winner Winner
Imagine having 5 years to prepare for something, and still not hitting the deadline.
A once valuable HS diploma is worthless today.
A once valuable 2 year AA / AS degree is worthless today.
Far too many once valuable 4 year degrees are essentially worthless today.
Many once valuable teachers and politicians are essentially worthless today because they went to dumbed-down schools.
See a pattern?
Go to a reputable trade school. Learn something valuable. If you want to learn art history read about it.
See a pattern? Lots of kids I know, some even my own dropped out of high school. Went to DVC, got admitted to UCLA. Is now a VP at a local tech company. And I don’t mean a bank, at a local bank most everyone is a VP. But go ahead and enjoy your negative view of the world, we are used to it.
“Lots of kids” huh. Maybe you could provide an exact count. and the names of the businesses where those “lots of kids” are working as VP’s.
Interesting to know you raised a HS dropout. Probably comes from a long line. In what year did you quit HS? Were you “asked” to leave?
Happy Pappy you are getting brutal.
There is a whole lot more to this than is being disclosed. Now that cheating schemes have been exposed nationally, you would think that the current system would be overhauled and improved, not scrapped.
Best apply for the rowing team just in case.
So much for King’s dream
The IQ of high school and college graduates have been in a decline since 1998. Each subsequent years graduates were dumber than the last.
For a decade now, kids graduating high school are less intelligent than the average person in the dark ages. Think about that.
Most in college don’t even learn anything. They are taught an opinion but not anything about their field let alone how to discover in their field. And what does that mean you ask? It means the persons IQ does not improve after their time in college.
Look at these graphs – Dumbing down students is in-effect.
https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/05/university-of-california-to-end-use-of.html
A Department Head at a UC University said to me that the Department prefers to accept out of State students because they pay higher tuition. That thinking, and a few SJW things that happened, allowed me to resign from that Department’s alumni board in good conscience the following year.
This dumbing down started in the late 60s. And here we are just as stupid as ever. Good job liberals.
Correct. First job was in 1967. Required interview, several tests, verified resume, and several letters of recommendation. This was the case until early 1970s. Went to an interview and asked why I wasn’t being tested. Was told personnel office could no longer give actual tests because they were considered discriminatory. This was at a University of California job site. If I shared additional (true) details, they would be considered offensive by the (albeit few) liberal cowards that frequent this site.
It’s fitting for the Peter Pan MElinial generation. Someone will always be there to hold their hand and be their mommy, so they think. And, most definitely, the dumbing down of America.
And the dumbing down continues. Schools are doing projects & group projects. Testing isn’t good for mental health. It stresses students out too much. And now with online learning teachers don’t know who is turning in the work. Yesterday, on Next Door, a parent posted for help with a senior project. Funny, since this is the last week of school. The post starts out with he is doing a report and then it changes to we are compiling a list. Parents do the work, no testing, what are we preparing these kids for? I have more respect for a kid who fails on his own and then figures it out.
Students that study hard in high school usually do well on the SAT and ACT. At top notch public high schools – like Acalanes and Campalindo – the kids typically really study hard, they often get all A’s and just as often they ace the SAT, as a result they typically get admitted to the best colleges.
High grades and good test score was always the ticket to go to Cal Berkeley, so generations of Acalanes and Campolindo kids got a chance to go to Cal – due to their hard work. But the same was true of kids that went to schools in tough neighborhoods. Now you can predict, due to this new policy, kids from these high performing high schools – and even low performing schools – are going to get rejection slips. I think this is a sad development.
Doing away with SAT scores – which gave the best students, the hardest working students, a real shot to go to Berkeley( which rejects huge amounts of frosh applicants), allows Cal officials to politicize the admissions process. Slots at the college will now be awarded based on race and gender and socioeconomic status, geography, immigration status etc. etc. Administrators at Cal now get to play God, and they also get to play politics with the admissions process.
I think giving the slots at Cal to the best students, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic status etc. was the fair way to do things. Now the admission process is going to be totally unfair, subject to the whims of these lazy do nothing administrators they have at Cal, many of whom got their jobs only because of who they knew (no civil service at California State Colleges and Universities).
Doing away with test scores is a sad day for Cal Berkeley, you can predict the University will go into decline. Having such a tough admission processed singled to employers and grad schools that you were getting the best and brightest from Cal. Now Cal will not be any different than Cal state Hayward or Sonoma State.. It will become just another mediocre public university.
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