Zócalo Public SquareAmerica’s Got an Undergraduate Problem – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 America’s Got an Undergraduate Problem https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/02/14/americas-got-an-undergraduate-problem/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/02/14/americas-got-an-undergraduate-problem/ideas/up-for-discussion/#comments Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:00:41 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=52610 In 1996, California voters banned affirmative action in public universities. Since then, the state’s public universities have struggled to enroll black and Latino students–and to keep them on campus.  Over 5,600 freshmen enrolled at UCLA in fall 2012; just 75 of those students were black men–and only 85 percent of them are expected to graduate. What can be done to make underrepresented students feel more a part of their universities, and to enroll more of them in the first place? In advance of the Zócalo/UCLA Thinking L.A. event “How Can We Make Higher Education More Inclusive?”, we asked higher education experts the following question: What is the biggest obstacle colleges and universities must overcome to create a more diverse and inclusive campus?

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