To Be a Black Man at UCLA
Sy Stokes, a junior at the University of California at Los Angeles, remembers that he nearly dropped out his first year. He has come to see that what he had been told about UCLA — that it was diverse and welcoming of all kinds of people — was hype. As a black male, he said in an interview Saturday, he felt “isolated” and he was very aware that the diversity at the university hasn’t led to increases in the share of black students (about 4 percent). While UCLA regularly has debates about race, he said that he felt that the perspective of black male students was missing… Of men at UCLA, black males make up 3.3 percent; of the 2,418 entering male students this year, 48 were black, and their expected graduation rate is 74 percent, so their numbers will shrink. He talks about students who leave because they can’t get enough financial aid while the business school dean at UCLA flies around the world first-class.
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by Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed.