This year’s incoming class at the University of Michigan, the class of 2012, is the first class whose entire admission cycle was conducted under the Affirmative Action ban passed by Michigan voters in 2006, and minority enrollment dropped slightly.  Underrepresented minorities constitute 10.5% of the class of 2012 as compared to12.6% of the class of 2010, the last class recruited before the ban.  Many feared the decline in minority enrollment would be more significant, as it was in Washington and California after the states passed similar affirmative action bans. Administrators were relatively pleased with the 1.9% decline in minority enrollment, considering they were expecting a larger decline, and pledged to continue to target underrepresented communities and order to overcome the drop in minority enrollment.

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