By Randall

Asian American enrollment has risen at Harvard, but according to several reports, it’s not certain if that indicates a trend.

Enrollment this fall increased to 41%, a jump from 37% in both 2024 and 2023, the year of the Supreme Court decision overturning the use of race in college admissions, reported the New York Times.

James Murphy, the director of postsecondary policy for Education Reform, says at some schools Asian and White enrollment are increasing, while at others it stayed the same.

Figures cited by the Hill show Asian American enrollment also increased 9% at Columbia and 6.5% at Haverford College, but schools such as Yale and Amherst saw declines or no difference.

What most seem to agree on is that the impact of the Supreme Court decision on Black students has led to an overall decline.

“We’re back to numbers that we worked really, really hard to eliminate. Where we, as in higher education, we worked really hard to diversify all colleges and universities, and so I’m worried about how that is going to slip back. … I am pretty deeply concerned that we are going back to a time where we’re not thinking about those past inequities and kind of trying to pretend that they never existed, or that they don’t exist, or that they don’t continue to have an impact,” said Marybeth Gasman, executive director for Rutgers University’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions.

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