Ethics

Partial Dismissal in UC Admissions Case

By Ed Brayton

It's been a while since we had news on the lawsuit between the Association of Christian Schools International and the University of California system. The judge last week dismissed some of the case and allowed other parts to continue (see ruling here). It's an unusual situation. Basically, the court ruled the university's admissions process is prima facie constitutional but that there was still some dispute over whether it might be called unconstitutional as applied to some of the specific courses they rejected.

The UC system decided not to give admissions credit to a handful of courses offered at some Christian schools because those courses failed to meet their criteria for academic rigor and, the university determined, did not adequately prepare students for the coursework they would encounter at a UC school.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).