Despite the fact that the claims that black students are under-represented at the University of California – Los Angeles are completely bogus, the school has felt respond to the false charges with a move that is right out of the campus progressive playbook.

Furman University student Lauren Cooley covers UCLA’s recent decision to hire “Discrimination Officers.”

UCLA is in the process of hiring two “discrimination officers” to handle racial discrimination complaints – a move expected to make it easier to probe grievances over racism – something alleged to be systemic among faculty at the public university.

Both employees and an independent report suggest that the university’s current procedures for addressing faculty racism complaints over hiring, advancement and retention decisions are insufficient, ambiguous and overly complicated.

“Concerned faculty members described a campus racial climate in near-crisis,” stated authors of a report released last fall which probed UCLA’s alleged racism epidemic and its supposed inadequacy at handling bias complaints. “(S)enior faculty members and former administration officials contended that the recent high-profile racial incidents at UCLA were only the tip of the iceberg, and that the campus racial climate, for a variety of reasons, has regressed since the mid-twentieth century.”

Currently, faculty can take complaints of racism to Academic Senate committees, the Title IX Officer, the Vice Provost for Diversity & Faculty Development, and the Office of Ombuds Services, among others. This makes things too complicated, doesn’t track and record all the bias incidents, and let’s grievances fall through the cracks, the report found.

“Relevant university policies were vague, the remedial procedures difficult to access, and from a practical standpoint, essentially nonexistent,” stated the report, which titled itself an “Independent Investigative Report on Acts of Bias and Discrimination Involving Faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles.”

“Faculty of color at UCLA must rely on a patchwork of diversity resources and the generic Faculty Senate complaint and grievance procedures in order to seek redress,” the report added. “While this ad hoc process has sometimes succeeded, it has failed to adequately record, investigate, or provide for disciplinary sanctions for incidents which, if substantiated, would constitute violations of university nondiscrimination policy.”

When UCLA’s students complain of rising tuition and lack of academic resources, they can thank the administrators who make decisions like this for their problems.