The State - News from April 13, 1989

The percentage of Asian students at UC Irvine is now the highest of any campus in the University of California system, university officials announced. The percentage has risen from 15% in 1980 to 33.5% last fall. Officials said the numbers of Chicano and Latino students have also grown during that period, but their share of the undergraduate population has remained little changed--about 8%. Blacks have actually declined in percentage, from 3.5% in 1980 to 2.7% in fall, 1988. In its Asian undergraduate enrollment, the Irvine campus has moved well ahead of Berkeley, where the percentage is 26% and where Chancellor Michael Heyman last week publicly apologized for admission policies that resulted in fewer qualified Asians.