STUDENT’S VIDEO LEADS TO DISCUSSION OF RACE AT UCLA | INSIDE HIGHER ED

“As a black male, he felt “isolated” and he was very aware that the diversity at the university hasn’t led to increases in the share of black students (about 4 percent). While UCLA regularly has debates about race, he said that he felt that the perspective of black male students was missing.”

“The university has disputed only one statistic in the video — in which Stokes says that 65 percent of black men are athletes. The university says that 18.4 percent of black male students enrolled last year were admitted as athletes.”

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