Fewer Black Students at Berkeley
Posted on June 3rd, 2004
(Source: University of California, Berkeley)Next fall, fewer than 100 black students will populate UC Berkeley's entering class. Applications from black students are down 10 percent, and the admission of african Americans dropped 30 percent.
As an AP article points out, in 1997, the last year that affirmative action was permitted at the University of California, the Berkeley campus admitted 562 black students.
Driving this drop in black enrollments, observers say, is a growing hostility toward any efforts that support racial preferences. African Americans and other minorities, it appears, are shying away from campuses where racial battles have been publicly fought.
Perhaps equally shocking to casual observers is that last fall whites accounted for only 30 percent of Berkeley undergrads, while Asian Americans accounted for 40 percent. At America's premier public university, in other words, being white makes you a minority.
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