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This month saw yet another win against DEI in higher education, as a major California university recently dropped a racial scholarship under threat of lawsuit.

In July, I wrote about how the University of California at San Diego had been skirting California and federal law against affirmative action via the Black Alumni Scholarship Fund, as was reported by The Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium . The scholarship was set up to be only available to black students.

It was a clever move by the school to dodge Proposition 209 — an anti-affirmative action law passed by voters in 1997 — by essentially offloading its discrimination on a separate, private organization.

Here’s how it worked, according to Sibarium:

With help from private donors, UCSD transferred the s

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