Report: Affirmative Action Ban in California Is Detrimental to Campus Diversity
October 11, 2012 | by HS News Staff
The Civil Rights Project published important new data on the way in which California’s ban on affirmative action harms the University of California in comparison to the University of Texas, which still has affirmative action, in terms of both the climate on campus for nonwhite students and the lack of success in recruiting top-ranked applicants of color.
The Salience of Racial Isolation: African Americans’ and Latinos’ Perception of Climate and Enrollment Choices with and without Proposition 209, by William C. Kidder, has two parts. The first is based on 2008-11 data from a large survey of 9,750 African American and Latino undergraduates on UC and other campuses. A second part of the study focuses on the enrollment choices of freshmen admitted to the University of California. The study compares eight UC campuses, the University of Texas at Austin, and two other leading universities.
At institutions with an affirmative action ban the report shows that fewer African Americans