The University of California Leads the Nation in Diversity

A recent study cited California as the leader in promoting educational diversity. This truly is exciting news and ideally will continue, despite the UCs’s ongoing state budget woes.

While most of the nation’s private schools provide little diversity and enroll the usual suspects, only California came to the fore in terms of admitting high-achieving low-income students. This is the conclusion culled from a New York Times study, labeled the College Access Index. The Index used three criteria: students receiving Pell Grants, and of those students, their graduation rates, and annual cost of tuition and expenses. And lo and behold, the University of California came up in seven of the top 10 spots.

This ties-in with my recent post regarding recent comments penned by Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Clinton, and now a Chancellor Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.