CSUN University News Clippings

As Berkeley Enrolls More Out-of-State Students, Racial Diversity May Suffer

(November 5, 2009)

By Josh Keller

San Francisco

Ever since California voters banned affirmative action by state agencies in 1996, the University of California at Berkeley has struggled to enroll more than a small group of black and Latino students. Four years ago, Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau called the university’s low numbers “shocking” and said the situation was “a crisis.”

But after making limited progress since then, Berkeley officials are now struggling to avoid another drop in the enrollment of underrepresented minority students, this time because of pressures from state budget cuts……..

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Publication: The Chronicle of Higher Education