In 1997, the year after California voters approved Proposition 209, which prohibited the consideration of race or ethnicity in the operation of state institutions, black students made up 8 percent of UC Berkeley’s freshmen enrollment — roughly the same percentage of African Americans living in the state. The following year, the percentage of black freshmen at Cal plummeted by more than half, and has hovered at or below 4 percent ever since… Some UC administrators and many students say that Berkeley will continue to feel inhospitable to African Americans until Cal can boost admissions to reach a so-called “critical mass” of black students on campus… The problem of low black-student enrollment also is not confined to the Berkeley campus; it’s considered by UC officials to be a statewide issue.

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by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, The East Bay Express.

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