UCLA Refused to Protect Whistleblowers in Med School 'Investigation'

The University of California, Los Angeles, medical school has gone to extraordinary lengths for over five years to shield its admissions practices from internal scrutiny, stonewalling data requests from concerned professors and refusing to assure admissions officials that they would not face retaliation for cooperating with an internal probe of the school’s admissions office, according to three sources with firsthand knowledge of the situation and documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. ...

The committee members "are afraid to go ‘on the record’ because they are concerned they will be breaking the law," a medical school professor wrote to UCLA leaders, including the dean of the medical school and its top legal officer, on behalf of the four admissions officials in November 2023. As such, they "are requesting an official letter … that explicitly states that they are released from the NDA."

The school refused—twice—to provide that letter. Instead, officials implied that indemnifying the whistleblowers would compromise "due process" and impede a "fair and unbiased investigation," according to emails obtained by the Free Beacon.