Black first-year enrollments at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have plummeted, according to a report from The Tartan, the university’s student-run newspaper.
Of the 1,865 first-year students at Carnegie Mellon this fall, only 23 — 1.23 percent — are Black. This is the lowest representation of Black students at the prestigious institution since it began collecting data on its first-year population.
Among other races, first-year enrollment dropped to its lowest on record for Hispanic students (5.31 percent) and White students (16.78 percent), while Asian student enrollment reached a new high of 47.56 percent this fall.
These shifts in enrollment come three years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to end affirmative action in higher education admissions.
