In summary
We fear the budget crunch could lead the UC to fail to deliver on the soaring hopes for social mobility for underrepresented minority students.
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By Charles Hale,
Katharyne Mitchell
Bill Maurer, Special to CalMatters
Bill Maurer is dean of social sciences at the University of California, Irvine, wmmaurer@uci.edu.
The UC student population now mirrors the racial and ethnic demographics of our state, with 63% of the admitted students in the class of 2024 who identify as Latinx, Asian American, Black or Pacific Islander. This diversity makes the UC a powerful engine of upward mobility and a potential brake on the trend toward deepening economic inequality.