Prop 209 impact at UCLA

In taking a closer look at UCLA statistics on faculty hiring before and after the UC regents’ resolutions, SP1 and SP, and Proposition 209 took effect, Vice Provost Rosina Becerra of the Office of Faculty Diversity and Development prepared charts that show how UCLA's hiring of African-American and Chicano/Latino faculty changed over three periods.

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For African-American tenured professors, hiring dropped in 1996-2000 from 2.5% in the period before the anti-affirmative action policies to 1.4%. But in the period of 2001 to 2006, hiring has exceeded the pre-policy levels. For Chicano/Latino tenured factory, hiring also fell off after the policies took effect, from 7.4% to 5.1%. But unlike hiring of African-American tenured faculty, hiring has not reached pre-policy levels, although it is recovering slowly.

For 2007-08, regular rank faculty at UCLA, both for the general campus and the Health sciences, are made up of 57.6% white men; 19.3% white women; 14.3% Asian American; 5.5% Hispanic; 3% African American; and 0.3% Native American.

The academic unit with the largest percentage of minorities — Asian, African American, Hispanic and Native American — is the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (40%), followed by the School of Dentistry (38%), the Graduate School of Education & Information Science (34%) and the Anderson School of Management (32%). The units with the smallest percentage of minorities are the School of Law (12%), followed by the divisions of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and the Humanities (all three are at 18%) in the College of Letters and Science.