Share this: College students sit in the shade on the horseshoe at the University of South Carolina. In 2019, its entering class was 6 percent Black in a state where 37 percent of public high school graduates were Black. Credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. Alarms sounded at the University of Maryland when the Class of 2022 arrived at College Park. Seven percent of freshmen in fall 2018 were Black, down from 10 percent the year before and 13 percent in 2014.