University cancels an obvious hiring test based on race
Vital Pacific Islands Studies Collective, an activist group, wants to expand its research at the University of California, Berkeley.
According to its website, the social wants more “education and professional development opportunities,” as well as supports “scholarly function based on the essential and equal study of the Pacific.
The Collective’s goals are being misrepresented by the scholar news, according to a head of the group’s undergraduate student who sent an email to The College Fix on Tuesday.
According to Viv Kammerer, the party is “primarily focused on producing scientific research and advancing the development of Critical Pacific Islands Studies at UC Berkeley.”
Kammerer refuted a statement from The Daily Cal that the advocate made about the school hiring too many bright faculty members.
Because there are numerous errors and wrong information, Kammerer told The Fix,” We are now working with the readers of the Daily Cal to possess them update or redact the post.” You ripped off one of my quotes as an illustration of this.
“CPISC does no use faculty”, Kammerer said on Tuesday. We are no coordinating any UC Berkeley university hiring processes. There are no university or staff positions in the CPISC.
In the past two days, The Fix has recently sent emails to different student organizers like Nathan Tilton, Kieren Rudge, and Sophia Perez.
They did not respond to inquiries about the propriety of hiring based on race, what important Pacific Island research entail, and what the next steps should they take, including any school responses. The work is partly funded by” Island Justice Colleagues,” which are funded by the institution.
Kammerer is an undergraduate student, while Perez, Rudge ( pictured, left ), and Tilton are graduate students.
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According to an attorney, the college would have to reject a claim that someone seeks to get on the basis of race.
” The equal protection clause prevents]UC Berkeley ] from taking any action on the basis of individual’s race”, Wilson Freeman told The Fix via email. Students for Fair Admissions made it clear that colleges may discriminate on the basis of competition among applicants or kids, he said, citing the 2023 Supreme Court decision prohibiting racial activity.
According to Freeman,” we may hold the view that any attempt to treat students or applicants as anything other than people is a constitutional infraction.” The Supreme Court made it abundantly clear that kids should be treated as individuals rather than as members of a specific ethnic group.
The Fix was informed by UC Berkeley that it cannot get people based on race.
According to official Dan Mogulof, a spokesman for the University of California and another position entities,” California law prohibits the University of California and other condition entities from using race, ethnicity, or sex as criteria in employment, people contracting, and open education.” “UC Berkeley adheres by the laws of the land.”
The community has various works in progress, including a radio called” Ocean Stories”.
The radio, with a guaranteed release time of Nov. 2024, “highlights problems facing the Pacific area by sharing views and lived experiences from a growing social of Pacific Islander researchers, activists, artists, and allies”.
Despite it being reported to have launched two months ago, The Fix was unable to locate any episodes of the show. There are other podcasts with the same name, however.
” We seek to understand relationships between militarization, environmental justice, Indigenous cultural preservation, colonialism, climate change, and more”, the podcast description states.
The group also supports the anti-Israel” Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” movement and says it supports “liberation in Palestine”.
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IMAGE: UC Berkeley Critical Pacific Island Studies Collective
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