UCLA Professor Tim Groseclose questions the race based admissions process at UCLA

One can find Tim Groseclose's discussion of the events here:

Statement by UCLA chancellor Norm Abrams to faculty committee overseeing admissions process:

First, I want to say how much I favor and respect faculty governance. I don't want to pressure you. . . . I wan to report to you what we are hearing from the outside world. Several constituencies of UCLA are distressed and upset about the very low numbers of African American freshman. . . .

He advocated a "Holistic" approach where application readers would put particularly weight on the essays written by the students in admissions. Apparently, the new process was going to be used to discern the applicants race. Tim Groseclose writes:

[It was later announced] African-Americans were over-represented among the application readers whom he had hired, and Asian-Americans were under-represented. . . . It is obvious that the admissions staff was under intense pressure to admit more African Americans. . . .