In my archival research paper, I spoke about a couple of facts that I wasn’t able to further research in the archives. One of these was how the diversity on campus now compares to the statistics stated back in the Multicultural Center Restructuring Agreement of 1997.
Source: Santa Clara University
In the Restructuring Agreement, it was said that the campus housed an undergraduate population that consisted of 37% minority students. In the class profile of 2020, given the minority population consists of all non-white students, then the percentage of minorities in the freshman class is 49% which is a huge increase from twenty years ago. Although the majority of the class is still white, the gap has been cut to a very small amount.
SCU Class of 2020 Profile (Source: Santa Clara University)
This equality was likely achieved with the help of organizations like the MCC who fought for the rights and morals of minority groups on campus since its creation in 1985. This sort of trend will be great to use in my paper since it can show how the implementation of certain policies and rules on campus resulted in an increase of diversity. It is also interesting to see how most of these policies stemmed from the pushes that the Multicultural Center made for diversity at Santa Clara University.