Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban

[RamsayBolton]

Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds

An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.

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After decades of gradual growth, the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions, leaving some campuses with Black populations as small as 2% of their freshman class, according to an Associated Press analysis.

New enrollment figures from 20 selective colleges provide mounting evidence of a backslide in Black enrollment. On almost all of the campuses, Black students account for a smaller share of new students this fall than in 2023. At Princeton and some others, the number of new Black students has fallen by nearly half in that span.

“If this trend continues, in three years this campus will be as Black as it was in the Civil Rights era,” said Quire, a member of the campus’ Black Student Union. “It feels like tying our feet together and telling us to restart.”

Some colleges downplayed trends spanning just two years, yet it raises questions about who should get a spot at elite campuses that open doors to the upper echelons of American life. It also emerges as the Trump administration unleashes a new campaign to police colleges it believes have quietly factored race into admissions decisions in defiance of the 2023 high court ruling.

Students notice dramatic changes​

Princeton University appeared to weather the turmoil last year when its racial makeup remained about level. But this fall, the number of Black students fell to 5% of the new class, down from 9% last year. The last time Black students represented such a small share of new students was 1968, according to The Daily Princetonian, a student newspaper.

 

[RamsayBolton]

also asian americans actually did benefit marginally

 

[OneManGang]

This is shocking news. Couldn’t have expected this at all tbh

 

[High Art]

How much of this is due to affirmative action ban and the fact that Trump seems to think blacks existing anywhere is DEI or affirmative action? This is the only real issue I have with this. We have seen how his administration seems to get literally upset at any black person existing in any of these spaces, like they shouldn't exist at all. Even with the above, he may pitch a fit over it.

 

[Turtle]

Yeah but, she was Indian…

 

[RamsayBolton]

 

[RamsayBolton]

How much of this is due to affirmative action ban and the fact that Trump seems to think blacks existing anywhere is DEI or affirmative action? This is the only real issue I have with this. We have seen how his administration seems to get literally upset at any black person existing in any of these spaces, like they shouldn't exist at all. Even with the above, he may pitch a fit over it.

impossible to measure, both are harmful, both are great reasons why Trump needed to be resisted at all levels by us in particular since we'd be hit the hardest

instead he gains more Black support year after year

 

[Black Hans]

Go earn a spot then, nikka Surely if 4 and 5 star athletes are being recruited out the hood, those same hoods should be producing 4 and 5 star academia students that these universities can recruit as well. Or is that not possible without Affirmative Action, you interalized-racists, you?

 

[Chrishaune]

Yeah but, she was Indian…

Yeah she is

 

[King Poetic]

The writing was on the wall 30 years ago here in California where the state banned affirmative action in schools

UCLA, Berkeley and other colleges black population heavily declined, so a lot transferred out of state and never returned

Black people already at the bottom, but trump administration making sure black folks will be next to the native Americans on a small desert location in Nevada

 

[Voice of Reason]

He's not lying about this it's a legit discussion.

 

[RamsayBolton]

He's not lying about this it's a legit discussion.

the first part is clearly a lie based on the data

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

This is absolutely disastrous for the Community. These National Flagship State Universities (UCLA, UMASS Amherst, University Of Michigan, Ohio State University, UNC, UVA, UCONN, SBU), Elite National Universities (IVY League, Stanford, Duke, MIT, NYU) and Very wealthy but small liberal arts schools (Colgate, Davidson, Vassar, Williams, Holy Cross) offer unparalleled resources and opportunities for every student who attends them. These schools offer high level career resource centers, networking gala/dinners, high level labs and research opportunities, plus NAME on resume benefits.


Black folks getting shut out of these opportunities and being regulated to poorly funded regional universities, open admissions Community Colleges, racially underfunded state HBCU’s, For-Profit Scams and mid tier private schools that dramatically overcharge will hurt the Black community economically, Politically and in terms of Social Standing even more.

This is awful

 

[Yapdatfool]

But y'all said F all forms of higher education get a trade or start a business instead

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Go earn a spot then, nikka Surely if 4 and 5 star athletes are being recruited out the hood, those same hoods should be producing 4 and 5 star academia students that these universities can recruit as well. Or is that not possible without Affirmative Action, you interalized-racists, you?

This is lazy, bad-faith bullshyt. Athletic recruiting is a business decision, not a measure of academic fairness. Trying to equate the two just exposes how racist and ignorant that argument is. You're implying that the reason this doesn't happen in academia is because of some inherent failure in Black people, not the system that was designed to keep them out.

"Go earn a spot" assumes the playing field is level and that everyone has the same shot if they just try harder. That's simply not true. The whole reason these remedies existed in the first place was to address the unequal conditions that make that kind of "fairness" a lie. Meritocracy is a myth.

And you're not slick with that last part. You're in here parroting racist talking points about Black intellect and worth, while trying to mask it in some shallow, performative "pro-Blackness." Supporting fairness and opportunity ≠ having a low-opinion/expectation of Black people. We just understand how racist this society is and how it works against us.