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to UC The University of California Berkeley has a problem - a lack of diversity on campus, caused by the end of affirmative action in the state in 1997. Texas ended affirmative action in 1996, and the numbers of minority students at the state's flagship public university - University of Texas at Austin - also plummeted. But Texas came up with a solution. The state legislature passed the Top Ten Percent law, which admits high school seniors in the top ten percent of their graduating class admission to any state college or university they choose. Over the past eight years, this race-neutral policy increased and stabilized the numbers of African Americans and Latinos on campus, and researchers hope the Top Ten Percent plan will also help improve minority enrollment at public universities in California in the near future. |
