Berkeley as the “Immigrant University”

Inside Higher Education has an article on “Berkeley as the ‘Immigrant University”  It begins:

“California has long been a land of immigrants; in 1920, almost a quarter of its residents were foreign-born, though the vast majority of the population had European roots. So it probably won’t shock anyone that the state’s flagship public university, the University of California at Berkeley, today has a strong immigrant tilt to its undergraduate student body. But even seasoned observers of the state and the university might be surprised by the extent of the immigrant presence at Berkeley, which the authors of a new study characterize as “tremendous and unprecedented”: 63 percent of the campus’s undergraduate students (excluding international students) were either born outside the United States or have at least one foreign-born parent.

The figure is lower, but still strikingly high, in the University of California system broadly, with 54 percent of undergraduates at all nine campuses being first- or second-generation immigrants (the university’s campuses at Irvine, Riverside, Los Angeles and Merced have the largest immigrant populations after Berkeley).”

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