"But there was no commensurate gain in long-run outcomes for the white and Asian students who took their place."īlack and Latino students were also less likely to earn graduate degrees or enter lucrative STEM fields. "Black and Hispanic students saw substantially poorer long-run labor market prospects as a result of losing access to these very selective universities," Bleemer told NPR. As a result of the ban, Bleemer found that Black and Latino students who might have gotten into those two top schools enrolled at less competitive campuses. That year, enrollment among Black and Latino students at UCLA and UC Berkeley fell by 40%, according to a 2020 study by Bleemer. Subsequently, diversity plummeted at UC's most competitive campuses. The ban first took effect with the incoming class of '98.
Before the ban, UC Berkeley and UCLA were roughly representative of the California high school graduate population who were eligible for enrollment at universities, according to Zachary Bleemer, an economist at Princeton University. In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 209, an affirmative action ban at public universities in the state. An affirmative action ban first caused a huge drop in diversity at top California universities The shortfall is especially apparent at the system's most selective schools, the university leaders said. "Yet despite its extensive efforts, UC struggles to enroll a student body that is sufficiently racially diverse to attain the educational benefits of diversity." "Those programs have enabled UC to make significant gains in its system-wide diversity," the brief said. In an amicus brief sent to the Supreme Court in support of Harvard and UNC's race-based admissions programs, University of California chancellors said that years of crafting alternative race-neutral policies have fallen short. Here's the upshot: A quarter-century after California banned race-based admissions at public universities, school officials say they haven't been able to meet their diversity and equity goals - despite more than a half billion dollars spent on outreach and alternative admissions standards. Supreme Court justices ruled that the admissions policies at the University of North Carolina, one of the country's oldest public universities, and Harvard University, the country's oldest private university, violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.Īs college admissions offices prepare to tailor their policies to the Supreme Court ruling, California offers lessons on what may be in store for the rest of the country.
This week, it happened: The Supreme Court struck down race-based admissions practices at public and private universities and colleges. Students walk past Royce Hall at the UCLA campus.įor decades, the question of affirmative action - whether colleges should consider race when deciding which students to admit - has been the subject of national debate.Īnd as the nation's highest court has grown more conservative in recent years, court-watchers wondered if it would reverse decades-old precedents allowing affirmative action. University at California Los Angeles is just starting to catch up to the diversity numbers it saw before an affirmative action ban took effect in 1998, according to a university official.
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