According
to
internal
data,
the
University
of
California’s
faculty
is
54.9%
White
and
22.2%
Asian.
Skews
a
little
whiter
than
you’d
expect
based
off
of
California’s
demographics,
but
it
doesn’t
scream
of
racial
bias
happening
in
hiring.
Still,
the
Department
of
Justice
wants
to
investigate
the
school
system
to
root
out
the
spectre
of
race-based
hiring.
Washington
Post
has
coverage:
In
a
letter
to
University
of
California
President
Michael
Drake
dated
Thursday,
the
Justice
Department
claimed
a
strategic
growth
plan
created
by
the
UC
system
that
mentions
diversity
in
hiring
suggests
that
the
educational
institution
“may
be
engaged”
in
discriminatory
employment
practices
based
on
race
or
sex.In
response,
University
of
California
spokesperson
Rachel
Zaentz
said
the
system
is
“committed
to
fair
and
lawful
processes
in
all
of
our
programs
and
activities,
consistent
with
federal
and
state
antidiscrimination
laws.”
The
University
of
California
system
was
one
of
the
first
places
that
schools
concerned
with
diversity
and
equity
looked
to
following
SFFA
v.
Harvard.
Affirmative
action
has
been
prohibited
by
California’s
constitution
since
Proposition
209
was
voted
on
in
1996.
On
the
one
hand,
University
of
California
should
be
the
last
school
targeted.
While
they’ve
had
goals
for
racial
equity,
year
after
year,
they’ve
failed
to
meet
them
since
Prop
209
became
the
law
of
the
land.
But
pointing
out
a
30-year
failure
streak
isn’t
enough
apparently:
aspiring
to
racial
equity,
even
without
the
results,
seems
to
run
afoul
of
the
Fourteenth
Amendment.
Maybe
the
DOJ
will
manage
to
get
that
White
faculty
rate
up
to
100%
once
this
is
all
over.
I
mean,
make
merit
great
again.
Justice
Dept.
Says
It
Is
Investigating
Univ.
Of
California
Hiring
Practices
[Washington
Post]
Earlier:
Suit
Alleges
Anti-White
Bias
In
Tax
Law
Hiring
Despite
Virtually
All
Tax
Lawyers
Being
White
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, is
interested
in
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected]
and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.