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UC Professors Sound Alarm on STEM Readiness
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Over 1,100 UC STEM professors are sounding the alarm: incoming students are arriving unprepared, forcing colleges to reteach middle school math—stealing time from advanced coursework. This crisis follows UC’s 2020 SAT/ACT ban, meant to boost equity but now linked to plummeting academic readiness and rising remedial needs. Professors warn of lower graduation rates, longer degrees, and fewer STEM grads—threatening California’s economy. Meanwhile, elite schools like MIT, Yale, and Dartmouth have reinstated standardized tests, seeing them as vital for gauging readiness. The UC Academic Senate is now weighing policy changes, caught between access and academic rigor, as professors push for testing’s return to safeguard future success.
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