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In 1992, it was 11.5%.  The percentage has been declining steadily over time while the population statewide has been holding steady on a percentage basis.[/quote]

[b]One more time: ten years ago, the categories changes. You can't compare numbers from 1992 and today. They were not collected in the same manner.

One more time again: you do not have the real number of black students. You just have the number that reported it.[/[/b]quote]

+1.  And the percentage  of black students is up for class of 2023.  Go talk to Jim Ryan if you don't believe me.  I was there when he said it.  1992 is a utterly irrelevant in today's college world.[/quote]

[b]So you are saying the percentage is irrelevant because it is self-reported and the methodology has changed, but then you appeal to the authority of Jim Ryan who cites a slight increase in the percentage from 2018 to 2019.

During the time period when there was no "Multi-race" option, 1992 to 2009, there was a 23% drop in the percentage of students that reported as black.  Since that time, 2010 to 2018, there has been an additional 6.5% decline in the percentage of students that report as black.

In 2018, UVA had only 6.5% of first time undergraduates identify as black.  Contrast that with the 2010 census (where multi-race was an option), where 19.4% of the population identified as black (2000 was 19.6% and 1990 was 18.8%).
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You're talking to several different people.  For some reason you want to run down UVA and African Americans.  Are you a UMD or Va Tech student?  Per wiki:  "The University of Virginia has also been recognized for consistently having the highest African American graduation rate among national public universities.[132][133][134][135] According to the Fall 2005 issue of Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, UVA "has the highest black student graduation rate of the Public Ivies" and "by far the most impressive is the University of Virginia with its high black student graduation rate and its small racial difference in graduation rates."[/quote]

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