REPORT: 3% OF UC AID BASED ON RACE, GENDER.Byline: Sarah Lubman Knight-Ridder Newspapers Race and gender helped determine 3 percent of all financial aid awarded to University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). students last year according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new report. That $33 million is too much for affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. opponents, who hope the news will help build support for Proposition 209 on the Nov. 5 ballot. ``If UC is doling out more than $30 million based on race, gender and national origin, it's important for people to know that,'' said Jennifer Nelson, spokeswoman for the Yes on 209 campaign. The ballot initiative, also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative, would ban race- and gender-based considerations in hiring, contracting and admissions at all state agencies. If the initiative passes, Nelson said, ``financial aid would be based on other characteristics, such as whether an individual is truly needy.'' The report on financial aid, released Wednesday evening by UC President Richard Atkinson Richard Atkinson may refer to:
Most of the money came from university funds. Private gifts and endowments made up the second-biggest chunk, followed by federal funds Federal Funds Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve . UC prepared the report at the request of Regent Ward Connerly Wardell Connerly (born June 15, 1939) is a political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent. He is also the founder and the chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, a national non-profit organization in opposition to racial and gender preferences. , head of the Proposition 209 campaign. Connerly, who last year authored a regents' resolution banning affirmative action in UC hiring, contracting and admissions, wasn't available for comment. The targeted aid included $20 million in scholarships, fellowships, and assistantships established by UC to promote diversity - three-fourths of which was used to recruit graduate students in fields in which women and various ethnic groups are underrepresented un·der·rep·re·sent·ed adj. Insufficiently or inadequately represented: the underrepresented minority groups, ignored by the government. . African-American, Latino, American Indian and Filipino-American students are underrepresented in all graduate fields, women are scarce in the sciences and engineering, and Asian-Americans are underrepresented in the social sciences and humanities, the report said. The regents' 1995 decision to stop using race- and gender-based preferences at the university didn't address financial aid. One university official said the new admissions policy will make targeted aid all the more significant for campus diversity. |
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