UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ELIGIBILITY AND ADMISSIONS STUDY GROUP

BACKGROUND MATERIALS
DECEMBER 16, 2003

1. Materials for December 16 Meeting
   1. Agenda
   2. Overview of Background Materials
2. Follow Up Items from November Meeting
   3. Questions and Answers from November Meeting
3. Eligibility and Admissions: The Educational Context
   4. "Critical Conditions for Equity and Diversity in College Access:
        Informing Policy and Monitoring Results," by Jeannie Oakes (2003)
   5. "Unequal Opportunity: California High Schools and Access to the University
        of California," by Isaac Martin, Jerome Karabel, and Sean Jaquez (2003)
4. Comprehensive Review: Policy Foundations and Historical Development
   6.  Chronology of Events Related to Freshman Admissions Criteria and Processes
   7.  Historical Outline of Undergraduate Admissions Selection Practices and the
        Two-Tiered Admissions Selection System at the University of California (2001)
   8. "Kidner Letter" on Implementation of Admissions Policy (1971)
   9.  University of California Policy on Undergraduate Admissions (1988)
   10. Guidelines for Implementation of University Policy on Undergraduate Admissions
        (1988)
   11. Regents Resolution SP-1 (1995)
   12. Report of the Task Force on Undergraduate Admissions Criteria (1995)
   13. Guidelines for Implementation of University Policy on Undergraduate Admissions
        (1996; rev. 2000)
   14. Regents Resolution RE-28 (2001)
   15. Guidelines for Implementation of University Policy on Undergraduate Admissions
        (2001)
   16. "Undergraduate Access to the University of California After the Elimination of
        Race-Conscious Policies," UCOP (2003)
   17. Excerpts from College Board Publications Toward a Taxonomy of the
        Admissions Decision-Making Process (1999), Best Practices in Admissions
        Decisions (2002), and Admissions Decision-Making Models (2003)
   18. "The New College Chaos," by James Fallows (Atlantic Monthly, November 2003)
   19. "The Admissions Maze," by Justin Ewers (U.S. News and World Report, America's
         Best Colleges, 2004 edition)
5. Comprehensive Review: Implementation
   20. First Year Implementation of Comprehensive Review in Freshman Admissions:
        A Progress Report from the Board of Admissions and Relations with
        Schools (2002)
   21. Comprehensive Review in Freshman Admissions — Fall 2003: A Report from
         the Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (2003)
   22. BOARS Accountability Principles for Comprehensive Review of Undergraduate
        Applicants to the University of California (2002)
   23. Comprehensive Review at the Six Selective Campuses: 2003 Admissions
         Process and Implementation by Accountability Principles (2003)
6. Comprehensive Review: Effects on Composition of Student Body
   24. Profile of Students Admitted Before and After Comprehensive Review:
        Systemwide and By Campus (Appendix B to Comprehensive Review in
        Freshman Admissions — Fall 2003: A Report from the Board of Admissions
        and Relations with Schools (2003)