THE STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION for - Black Californians

It required colleges to use multiple measures of student readiness, prohibited the use of placement tests as the sole metric of student readiness, and mandated that colleges place students in the level of coursework that gives them the greatest chance of completing transfer-level coursework.21 The Public Policy Institute of California examined data on the number of students taking and passing tran. [...] The underrepresentation of Black students at the state’s four-year public universities, when combined with the disparate levels of funding received by the various segments, creates a context in which the state systematically underinvests in its Black students.34 Just three percent of Black students in California attend a UC campus. [...] While the number of Black students applying to the UC has grown over the course of the past decade, too few Black students in California are eligible to apply to the UC as freshmen. [...] universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/admissions-residency-and-ethnicity Elimination of the SAT and ACT for Admissions In May 2020, the UC Board of Regents made a historic and unanimous decision to eliminate the use of the SAT and ACT for eligibility and admissions, and in November, the UC also noted the SAT and ACT would not be used in awarding Regents and Chancellor’s Scholarships.35 Standardize. [...] The UC has the highest completion rates for Black students of any system in the state, 77 percent in six years, but that leaves close to a quarter of Black students are not supported to complete their Bachelor’s Degrees within six years.