68 Black Students Will Enroll At UC San Diego As Freshmen This Fall

The University of California-San Diego's black enrollment will see a small increase this year, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Sixty-eight black students are part of this fall's incoming class, up from 50 last year. There are more than 4,000 students in the class.

The university has also seen an increase in black students among their transfer student population. Out of 2,943 transfers, 87 are black -- nearly double last year's figure of 46.

Some at the school feared that fewer black students would enroll this year in response to a row of racially charged incidents within the community, including an off-campus party with a "Compton Cookout" theme.

Comments

[Giftedroot]

05:41 PM on 07/09/2010

How many minorities apply and how many are turned down?

68 out of 4000 seems extreme -- as if qualified minorities avoid the school (which seems unlikely in this day and age).

[SilentSolidarity]

02:47 PM on 07/02/2010

68 black students. 1/4 was admitted to play sports. 1/4 are female African Americans. The other half are African immigrants, not African Americans. This is how they do it.

[Slapmewhenitsover]

06:47 PM on 07/03/2010

However, 74% are also NON-Caucasian...so I do not know what kind of racial issue it is but since 44% are Asian....hmmmmm....

If they make the grades, then they will be accepted, and if they do not they will not be accepted...You know...the same way it works for everyone...

Otherwise, they can go to a state school like EVERYONE ELSE HAS TO when they are not accepted...

If someone wants to prove they are not being accepted even though they are qualified, then we have a different issue...

[Not Too Stable]

03:30 AM on 07/02/2010

Then UC San Diego ought to do a black outreach. The university ought to teach black parents to not to allow their children drop out of high school to have babies, or to gang bang, or to sell drugs, and tell the ones whose children stay to teach their children to actually study hard and get good grades and test scores to earn their way into the university, instead of complaining racism is keeping them out.

[A Mart]

06:46 PM on 07/02/2010

For you to blame the "culture" of Blacks is in itself racist because you are relying on racist stereotypes. It is saddening that you have this limited portrayal of Blacks without analyzing the role institutions play in limiting the life chances of non-whites. Besides, Black students are attending the university, but why is it that they opt out of UCSD?

[Not Too Stable]

05:32 AM on 07/03/2010

They are opting out of UCSD because the school refuses to coddle them and demands they make it on merit and stand on their own two feet and not hide behind exaggerated and false accusations of racism.

[Giftedroot]

05:49 PM on 07/09/2010

That comment is so deep in ignorant of the broader realities of society on so many levels.

[SoCalJenn11]

06:46 PM on 07/01/2010

I grew up in san diego and I can tell you, it's not a terribly friendly place for black people.

[LeftLeanWing]

09:56 AM on 07/02/2010

My family lived there in 1965-1966......moving from Tidewater-Area in Virginia....

It was my first experiences with integrated schools, neighborhoods and having non-black friends...

[Chubbster]

03:51 PM on 07/01/2010

So? There are even less Hawaiians.

[Luisovich]

03:05 PM on 07/02/2010

That's like saying there are very few Alaskans attending, it's just not relevant.

[DevonTexas]

02:27 PM on 07/01/2010

Terrible. just terrible. and sad.

[blogisti]

12:54 PM on 07/01/2010

Beating down racism is a long term struggle. It will be through integration of minorities into all parts of American life. Unfortunately, we are talking numerous decades of determined integration. In the end America will be greater for being able to benefit from the creativity of all its people and not just the white minority(ironically, when integration is finally apparent to all the whites will be in the minority themselves). Institutionalizing justice for minorities is constructing a just society for whites too.

[Juq927]

10:38 AM on 07/01/2010

NY Times
"Top French Schools, Asked to Diversify, Fear for Standards"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/world/europe/01ecoles.html?_r=1&hp

[blueballs]

06:47 AM on 07/01/2010

Any way that you look at it, 1.7% is more than dismal and, sure, UC San Diego is not on the top of *anyone's* list of schools but it is still a member of California's flagship university system. As a Cal alum, I find this appalling.

[Aaron Wheeler]

03:34 PM on 07/02/2010

Hey! What do you mean, UC San Diego is not on the top of "anyone's" list of schools? I feel like your UC Berkeley education is causing some bias, here. UC San Diego is a great school in a lot of ways!

Aggregated by Wikipedia:
UCSD is "currently ranked the fourteenth best university in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. The 2010 edition of U.S. News & World Report ranked UC San Diego as the 35th best university in the nation. UCSD is consistently ranked high in other college and university rankings. The university ranks 2nd nationally in The Washington Monthly."

The fact that UCSD is such a good school is part of what makes this story so troubling. Good schools should be accessible to everyone. Of course, I'm a UCSD alumni myself, so I'm a bit biased as well! UC Berkeley, though, is not the only good school in the UC system.

[morefromLA]

04:31 AM on 07/01/2010

My wife wants our daughter to apply but now I'm not so sure even though they have a great theater program. I'd hate to have to drive down there with a baseball bat. That's not the right attitude to have.

[shockaslim]

04:02 AM on 07/01/2010

I think this article is just trying to start some beef that isn't cooked.

[LeftLeanWing]

09:57 AM on 07/02/2010

beef is usually 'uncooked' when it starts.

[IDIOTA]

03:15 AM on 07/01/2010

It's people like Arthur Hu's that encourage Asian hatred of blacks on college campuses. I think that he quipped that blacks can either have a big brain or a big phallus, not both.

[morefromLA]

04:20 AM on 07/01/2010

If he's sayin O's got a small d, it's on!

[DevonTexas]

02:28 PM on 07/01/2010

couldn't something similar be said for Asians and Mr Hu? But on the plus side, he doesn't seem very smart!

[Word Watcher]

02:24 AM on 07/01/2010

Why won't they enroll? Perhaps because they're not welcome?

[jasev01]

01:28 AM on 07/01/2010

what happened to Affirmative action?

[morefromLA]

04:23 AM on 07/01/2010

Prop 209 killed it in California several years ago thanks to turncoat Ward Connerly who made millions through affirmative action requirements for minority businesses and then turned on the program after he had his.

[jasev01]

07:31 AM on 07/01/2010

I was kinda being sarcastic about all the people who say their spots have been taken.

[wendelswerk]

10:03 PM on 06/30/2010

UCSD has a number of problems surrounding race and ethnicity. Just one example, a Professor teaching Native American issues is not a Native American. I suppose the way they would argue is that they couldn't find NA qualified. This is just one example of the kind of racial politics going on at that University.

[RightWingMarine]

04:00 PM on 07/01/2010

you support overt racial preferences in hiring? Why should their be a requirement that only people of a certain race be permitted to teach certain classes? Should there be similar requirements thtat only certain races can take the course as well?

[LeftLeanWing]

09:59 AM on 07/02/2010

I would Love to see a Indian Professor teaching Black Studies.

[wendelswerk]

11:37 AM on 07/09/2010

Your question is too simplistic. The question is whether or not an individual has no inherent ties to a people, community and culture could effectively become an expert in the field. There are some whites that do well in teaching the history of race and the history of Africans in America. For example Eric Foner comes to mind. But what I am talking about is not merely history but teaching the culture of a people, music, language, art, religion, politics, and society. The real question is whether or not an individual that has limited ties to a people and a community can effectively teach the subject. There is not a person on this planet that could live outside of Africa or China or even the United States for that matter and teach these subjects as effectively without having lived among them and have learned the culture directly and not from books.

[JEG88]

09:15 PM on 07/01/2010

Although I'm not disagreeing since I don't go to UCSD and this is the first I've heard of their lack of racial diversity, I don't think one has to be of that ethnicity to be qualified to teach studies in it. I've heard of male professors teaching Women's Studies, and my favorite Spanish teacher in high school was a Scot.