UCLA Faculty Sign Diversity Brief to U.S. Supreme Court

More than 800 scholars and researchers from all parts of the United States recently submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that evidences the need to maintain colleges’ rights to consider race as one of many factors in selecting students. UCLA ethnic studies center directors Chon A. Noriega (CSRC), Darnell Hunt (Bunche Center for African American Studies), and David Yoo (Asian American Studies Center), as well as education professors and CSRC Faculty Advisory Committee members Daniel Solórzano, Sylvia Hurtado, and Concepción Valadez (retired), are among the signatories. The press release, issued by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, states that the brief represents what may be the largest-ever outpouring of scholarly support for a social science brief in a civil rights case. The press release can be found here.