Almost No Progress in Number of Black Students Admitted to the Most Prestigious Campuses of the University of California

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
May 6, 2010

Prior to the enactment of Proposition 209 in 1996, blacks routinely made up more than 7 percent of the students in the entering class at the University of California at Berkeley. When voters approved Proposition 209, Berkeley and the other campuses of the University of California were prohibited from considering race in admissions decisions. Black enrollments plummeted, particularly at UCLA and Berkeley, the two most prestigious campuses of the University of California system.

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