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With the review of Harvard completed, focus nowshifts to Berkeley's law school and UCLA'sundergraduate programs, where investigations arestill under...
Earlier this week, the Education Departmentfaulted one of 84 graduate programs investigatedat UCLA for discriminating against AsianAmericans...
...Education Department began its investigation in 1988, in response to allegations that three schools--Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley and UCLA--were discriminating against Asian-Americans. The Department was investigating whether the schools had violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin in institutions that receive federal funds...
Young countered the investigation's findings, saying in a statement that the proportion of Asian Americans at UCLA has increased from 8.4 percent in 1979 to15 percent in 1989. He added that the proportionof Asian and Asian-American students is 22.3percent...
Critics of the admissions practices of UCLA andHarvard have charged that racial quotas have beenestablished to decrease the number of AsianAmericans in the student bodies. Department ofEducation officials have said that they initiatedthe review on their own and not in response tospecific complaints