Ripples of Affirmative Inaction in California

Into America by MS NOW

Jul 20, 202300:41:42Government & Organizations

Nearly 30 years ago, California voters approved Prop 209 , which banned affirmative action for the state’s public universities. For some elite schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA , Black student enrollment plummeted, chang...

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