UNC sees less diversity among new students after Supreme Court ruling

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) released its latest student enrollment data that shows the university is seeing less diversity after the Supreme Court’s 2023 affirmative action ruling.

In the fall of 2023, Black first-year and transfer students made up 10.5 percent of new students at UNC. This year, that number dropped to 7.8 percent.

The number of Hispanic students dropped from 10.8 percent to 10.1 percent. American Indian- or Alaska Native-identifying new students dropped 0.5 percentage points...