DOJ investigates CA for discriminatory diversity targets

(The Center Square) — The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into the University of California system for potential race- and gender-based discrimination in employment.

“The University of California’s ‘UC 2030 Capacity Plan’ directs its campuses to hire ‘diverse’ faculty members to meet race- and sex-based employment quotas,” wrote the DOJ. “These initiatives openly measure new hires by their race and sex, which potentially runs afoul of federal law. “

The UC 2030 Capacity Plan emphasizes expanding faculty diversity as a core goal of the 10-campus UC system as it endeavors to “become a Hispanic-serving and minority-serving system.”

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