Actually, I made up the last part of that headline, but the first part is true.
An article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education (link requires subscription) describes these and other findings from a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics.
According to the 2003 report, the proportion of white students among all students enrolled in two-year and four-year, public and private postsecondary institutions dropped by 8.1 percentage points over the most recent 10-year period for which figures were available. White students accounted for 67.8 percent of total enrollments in 1999-2000, compared with 75.9 percent in 1989-1990.
Over the same period, the enrollment of black students and members of other minority groups steadily increased. The proportion of Hispanic students enrolled in higher-education institutions grew by 3.8 percentage points, to 12.2 percent; and that of black students grew by 2.4 percentage points, to 12.6 percent. Combined, minority students made up about one-third of the student population in 1999-2000, compared with only one-fourth in 1989-1990.
Meanwhile, the number of women seeking a higher education continues to outpace that of men, as it has since the 1970s. Women accounted for 56.3 percent of all students enrolled in institutions of higher education in 1999-2000, a one-percentage-point gain from 55.4 percent in 1989-1990
I think you’ll be shouting in the wilderness about this for a long time. Christina Hoff Summers has been warning baout this for about a decade now, and no one has noticed.
What is worrying is that, according to 60-minutes, many schools are responding with a type of Affirmative Action program aimed at men, and I suppose white. So the second part of your headline is not far from the truth.
I thought Prop 209 and other changes would incrase the White student population. What is causing this?