By law, the UC system must open its doors to all students from the top 12.5 percent of the state’s high school graduating classes. Hernandez spokesmen claim the legislation would “ensure that universities reflect the diversity of the state,” and UC officials support the proposal for the same reason.
Constitutional Amendment 5, sponsored by state senator Ed Hernandez, a West Covina Democrat, would exempt state colleges and universities from Proposition 209’s mandates. Politicians have also tried to thwart voters’ intentions. But that hasn’t stopped university officials from doing everything they can to restore the old affirmative-action regime in all but name. The university officially ended race- and sex-based preferences in 1996, and California’s voters that same year approved a constitutional amendment, Proposition 209, banning preferences in state hiring, education, and contracting. Of course, Napolitano’s apparent taste for gender preferences may have worked in her favor with the UC Regents.
UC’s search team may have fast-tracked Napolitano’s nomination before the lawsuits blew up in court. The suits include extensive allegations of sexually offensive behavior by high-level female staff-charges that would ruin any man’s career. She remains the defendant in lawsuits charging that she discriminated against male staffers and promoted women of lesser qualifications. soil continued on Napolitano’s watch, and her personnel record at DHS was spotty, too. On her watch, the massive federal bureaucracy conformed to the administration’s line that acts of terrorism are “man-made disasters,” and that domestic right-wing extremists may pose a greater threat than militant Islamists.
President Obama picked Napolitano, a partisan Democrat, to run the Department of Homeland Security in 2009 because of her purported experience with border enforcement in Arizona. UC Regent Sherry Lansing, who directed a secretive selection process that drew criticism from the Sacramento Bee and others, told reporters, “Secretary Napolitano is without a doubt the right person at the right time to lead this incredible university.” Lansing may be right, but not in the way that she imagines. Last month, the University of California selected former Arizona governor and Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano to lead its ten-campus, $20 billion system.
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