By Alec Rosenberg

After three packed days of workshops examining career paths, effective communicating, negotiating and networking, 63 of UC Health's brightest female postgraduate students were ready to relax.

Then the closing keynote speaker of the University of California Diversity Pipeline

By TERENCE CHEA
Associated Press

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) _ Fifteen years ago, California voters were asked: Should colleges consider a student's race when they decide who gets in and who doesn't?

With an emphatic ``no,'' they made California the first state to ban the use of race and ethnicity in public university admissions, as well as hiring and