CUNY Seeing Fewer Blacks at Top Schools

The New York Times: CUNY Seeing Fewer Blacks at Top Schools

he enrollment of black students at three of the most prestigious colleges of the City University of New York has dropped significantly in the six years since the university imposed tougher admissions policies.

New York Post: Black setback at key CUNY schools

Five years after the City University of New York introduced stricter admissions standards, the number of black undergraduates attending three of the system’s premier four-year colleges has sharply declined. Enrollment of black students across the system’s 11 senior colleges climbed a total of 1.3 percent over the same period, but that increase was smaller than the growth for any other ethnic group, according to data culled by the university and provided to The Post.

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