UCLA'S MINORITY NUMBERS DWINDLE; SYSTEMWIDE DECLINE NOT NEARLY AS SHARP.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services More than 25 percent fewer minority students chose to enroll at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX for the coming fall semester compared to the current freshman class, school officials announced Wednesday. The numbers of Latino, African-American and American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. students who signed up by May 1 to join the class of 2002 declined from 862 to 604. Latino enrollment fell from 603 to 458; African-Americans from 219 to 131, and American Indians American Indians: see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the; Natives, Middle American; Natives, North American; Natives, South American. from 40 to 15. In contrast, Asian enrollment jumped from 1,544 to 1,700 while whites increased slightly from 1,267 to 1,282. The number of students who declined to state their race and were listed as ``unknowns'' nearly tripled from 201 to 558. Statewide, the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). system showed a decline in ``under-represented'' minority enrollment of 2.4 percent. At UCLA, officials said 4,267 students plan to enroll in the fall. About 4 percent are expected to change their minds and enroll elsewhere. ``The good news is that we will enroll more under-represented minorities than we anticipated, but we remain disappointed that fewer . . . were admitted under the constraint of Prop. 209,'' said UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale Albert (Al) Carnesale (born July 2, 1936) is an American academic, formerly chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles and provost of Harvard University. He has been involved in international diplomacy related to nuclear non-proliferation. . The incoming freshman class is the first admitted after University of California regents in 1995 banned race as a factor in admissions. Voters passed Prop. 209 in 1996, forbidding state agencies from using race as a basis for making decisions. The first signal that the freshman minority population would decline came March 30, when UCLA said that the numbers of those students accepted for admission dropped by 32 percent from the previous year. The enrollment shifts were far less dramatic for the entire nine-campus UC system. Statewide, more than 27,000 high school seniors are planning to attend UC schools. The overall drop in minorities was smaller than officials feared in the wake of an end to affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. , said UC spokesman Terry Lightfoot. ``This is an encouraging outcome in a year that presented new challenges brought on by Proposition 209 and changes in UC admission policy,'' said UC President Richard Atkinson Richard Atkinson may refer to:
``It is an indication of the university's strong appeal to all students and a tribute to the effectiveness of UC's outreach efforts,'' he said. In addition to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , the San Diego and Berkeley campuses show decreases in minority enrollment, but schools like Irvine and Riverside show increases, Lightfoot said. |
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