Given to ’50 high-achieving students’ who had ‘major life hurdles’
Replacement Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris was admitted to law school under a program for students who had experienced “educational disadvantage, economic hardship, or disability,” according to a recent report.
This, despite the fact that both her parents were tenured professors.
The Daily Signal notes that according to an article in the University of California-San Francisco law magazine, the school’s Legal Education Opportunity Program — of which Harris benefitted — gives admission “to approximately 50 high-achieving students each year” who experienced the noted “major life hurdles.”
Most are “students of color” who can take advantage of the LEOP’s “weeklong orientation, academic counseling, practice exams, and help preparing for the bar exam and job interviews, among other resources and services.”
Harris’ mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris was a researcher at UC Berkeley, and held positions at the University of Illinois, the University of Wisconsin, and McGill University.
Her father Donald held posts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and then Stanford, where he was a “renowned Marxist economist.”
Neither the UC San Francisco Law School nor the Harris campaign offered comment to The Daily Signal about how precisely Harris qualified for the LEOP.
A mid-1970s study of professor salaries at 61 colleges and universities (which includes McGill) showed the average was more than twice the national median income — $28,751 vs. $11,800.
According to ZipRecruiter.com, the average salary of a tenured professor in the U.S. today is just over $80,000, with salaries in many areas of California $20,000 higher or more.
As noted by The College Fix, Harris recently was accused of plagiarizing portions of her 2009 book “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.”
In early September, several scholars invoked the United States’ history of “arrogance, ignorance, [and] racism” regarding the (mis)pronunciation of Harris’ first name. A professor from San Jose State University said the mispronunciation typically comes from a “white, male authority figure” who is “too busy to care.”
In July, a Macalester College professor said Harris’ race and gender still matter in 2024 as the country “ha[s] not gotten past” those issues.
