SAN FRANCISCO—The University of California (UC) admissions board announced on June 11 that it will consider reinstating standardized test requirements in its admissions process. The announcement came two weeks after faculty complained that many freshmen lack mathematics skills.
“UC will undertake a comprehensive review of key admissions policies, specifically the role of standardized testing and the effectiveness of UC’s college-preparatory framework,” UC Academic Senate Chair Ahmet Palazoglu said in the statement.
The Academic Senate’s Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS) on June 5 approved a roadmap establishing two faculty-led workgroups, one to consider the use of standardized tests in the admissions process and the other to review UC’s academic course requirements, known as A-G subject requirements….