Where  are  the  Black  Students?  By  Rasheed  Shabazz  

 Students  of  Color  Conference  UC  Merced  November  2014  

35,705

1,449

43.8%

Total  Afrikan/Black  First  Year  

Total  First  Year  Students  

Afrikan/Black  Admissions  Rate  

179,581

6,488

3.6% Total  Black  Undergraduate  Students  

Total  Undergraduate  Students  

Black  Percentage  of  Undergrads  

49,527

1,357

2.7% Total  Black  Graduate  Students  (Academic  &  Professional  

Total  Graduate  Students  

Percentage  of  Black  Graduate  Students  

Undergrad & Grad Student Diversity

Source:  University  of  California  

Fall  2000  through  2010  

Source:  University  of  California  

194,783

11,215

5.7% Total  Black  Staff  UC  Wide  

Total  University  Staff  

Black  Percentage  of  Staff  

58,878

1,256

2.1% Total  Black  Faculty  

Total  Faculty  UC  Wide  

Black  Percentage  of  Faculty  

STAFF & FACULTY DIVERSITY

The  State  of  Black  Students  in  CA  

•  32%  of  Black  college  students  drop  out  of  college  

•  30%  of  Black  Californians  25-­‐34  have  AA  or  BA  •  Black  people  6%  of  state  populaTon;  but  10%  of  for-­‐profit  college  students  

   NaneWe  Asimov,  “Blacks  have  lowest  college  graduate  rate  in  state,”    San  Francisco  Chronicle,  December  2013  

•  Black  students  “Under  Represented”  in  Higher  EducaTon  in  California    

•  Poor  “Campus  Climate”  for  Black  students  •  Lack  of  “CriTcal  Mass”  of  Black  students  encourages  racist  campus  climate  

•  Campus  Climate  encourages  to  “stereotype  threat”  and  poor  academic  achievement  

The  State  of  Black  Students  in  CA  

Historical  Context  

•  Legacy  of  Slavery  and  Jim  Crow  •  CA  Master  Plan  for  Public  EducaTon  (1960)  •  Black  Student  Uprising  •  AffirmaTve  AcTon  •  ProposiTon  209  •  Post-­‐Racial  UniversiTes  

“MASTER  PLAN”  SLAVERY,  JIM  CROW  &  THE  MASTER  PLAN  FOR  EDUCATION  

BLACK  STUDENT  UPRISING  

ANTI-­‐APARTHEID  

ACCESS    

ApplicaTons,  Admissions,  Enrollment  

ApplicaTons,  Admissions,  Enrollment  TRANSFER  

SUCCESS  

RetenTon  &  GraduaTon  

Student  Athletes  

Campus  Climate  

‘Stereotype  Threat’  

Pre-­‐A/BSA  &  Pre-­‐  ABC  

Now  

Future  

HARAMBEE  “Pull  together”  for  SoluTons  

•  Enrollment  Increase  •  RetenTon/GraduaTon  Increase  •  Campus  Climate  Improvement  •  Student  Athlete-­‐MobilizaTon  

ISSUES  

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UCSB BSU’S DEMANDS MET

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UC IRVINE

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FUNDS

Santa Barbara Black Student Union wins historic gains for Black students

Strategies & Tactics

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The UC Santa Barbara Black

Student Union demanded change

to create a better learning envi-

ronment for Black students and

the administration responded.

Both parties peacefully collabo-

rated to create a better learning

environment for Black students.

In an effort to develop new and

innovative plans to recruit and

retain Black faculty, the Black

Student Union, with help from

our trusted advisors, proposed

a visiting Professorship in the

Black Studies Department, a

two-year Post-Doctoral fellow-

ship housed in the Center for

Black Studies Research, and an

increase in funding for the Cen-

ter for Black Studies Research

Dissertation Scholars’ program.

We are pleased to announce that

Chancellor.Yang agreed to fully

By Black Student Union

UC Santa Barbara

By Rasheed Shabazz

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Two more UC student govern-

ments have divested their funds

from the Prison Industrial Com-

plex (PIC) during winter quarter:

UCLA and UC Irvine.

The PIC is the system of pri-

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also uses monies to lobby elected

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house Afrikan people, people of

color, and low- and no-income

people.

On Thursday, February 13,

UC Irvine’s student government

voted to divest funds.

UCLA’s student government

vote to divest on February 4.

In spring 2013, UC Berkeley

and UC Santa Barbara success-

fully passed resolutions to divest

student funds from the PIC.

In upcoming weeks, other UC

Davis and UC Riverside also

consider similar resolutions.

While the individual campus

student governments’ prison in-

vestments ranged in the hundreds

of thousands, the University of

California’s $82 billion endow-

ment includes over $1.5 billion

in investments.

In the 1980s, UC students led

a successful movement to divest

funds from the racist Apartheid

government of South Africa.

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In Detail: UCLA’s Resolution to divest from Prison Industrial Complex

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