UC regents set firm, faster 2027 deadline on whether to bring back SAT admissions requirement
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Set us as preferred The chair of the University of California Board of Regents said Tuesday she expects faculty leaders to issue a recommendation by June 2027 on whether the system should restore an SAT or ACT test requirement in admissions, a new and accelerated timeline following an abrupt decision last week to shelve a widely criticized longer plan to study the question.Speaking at a regents meeting in San Francisco, Chair Maria Anguiano called on the admissions board, a committee of the influential Academic Senate, to take on broad questions of college readiness, which has been at the heart of the SAT debate.First-year students, according to thousands of professors, are arriving severely deficient in math and weak in writing skills.
The study will also look at the high school courses UC requires for admission.The work ahead represents a major policy review that could change the way tens of thousands of students are admitted to the nation’s premier public university system.The regents must ultimately approve any changes.
Recent debates, Anguiano said, have focused “too narrowly” on standardized testing, a UC debate that has been among the most closely watched issues in American higher education for months.She said she was “grateful to the Academic Senate for undertaking a comprehensive approach ...
the goal of this review is not to rehash old questions or data, but an opportunity to take a fresh look at how we define and evaluate college readiness.” California Six years after dropping the SAT and ACT, the University of California is weighing a return to standardized testing following intense pressure from faculty who say incoming students lack basic math and reasoning skills.The announcement came days after UC’s faculty admissions board pulled back on its study plan without offering alternatives or giving a pu...