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It explains constraints created by the 2023 Supreme Court SFFA v. Harvard ruling and reviews California’s response since Proposition 209. The brief highlights state strategies to expand college access through clearer pathways, stronger data infrastructure, and changes in recruitment and enrollment at selective institutions.","A SNAPSHOT OF POSTSECONDARY ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITY IN CALIFORNIA  \nBy: Janiel Santos and Eleanor Eckerson Peters October 2025  \nINTRODUCTION  \nEnsuring students from all backgrounds can access valuable postsecondary opportunities is critical to meeting the national imperative for an educated, resilient, and diverse workforce. Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and first-generation students and students from low-income backgrounds often face systemic barriers to accessing and succeeding in higher education. These barriers include limited college counseling and planning resources, inequitable admissions practices, and unclear degree pathways. These obstacles are beyond students’ control, but they can be removed or mitigated by institutional leaders and state policymakers.1  \nImproving access to opportunity for students from historically marginalized backgrounds can be done in several ways. In 2023, however, the Supreme Court’s Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. President and Fellows of Harvard College decision limited the ways in which colleges and universities can use race-conscious admissions practices nationwide.2  \nWhile this ruling poses new challenges for many states and institutions seeking to expand opportunity, California state and college leaders have navigated this landscape for nearly three decades. In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 209, a measure that led to the elimination of affirmative action in admissions programs. Previously, these programs had helped foster greater student body diversity at the University of California (UC) system, the state’s most selective public university system.3 The effect was stark: enrollment of Black, Latinx, and Native American students at UC’s most selective institutions fell sharply after Proposition 209 was enacted in 1998. The University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campuses experienced 50 percent and 40 percent declines, respectively.4  \nCALIFORNIA’S TWO PUBLIC UNIVERSITY SYSTEMS  \nTogether, the UC and CSU systems serve more than 600,000 undergraduate students and provide distinct but complementary pathways to a postsecondary degree in California.5 While admissions rates vary across campuses within both systems, the UC system is more selective overall.  \nUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UC) ~~ ~~  \n10  \nCAMPUSES  \n236,070  \nUNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT  \nRESEARCH, GRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS  \nFOCUS  \nCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY (CSU) ~~ ~~  \n23  \nCAMPUSES  \n408,248  \nUNDERGRADUATE ENROLLMENT  \nUNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION, APPLIED LEARNING & WORKFORCE PREP  \nFOCUS  \nSince those enrollment declines, California leaders have implemented strategies that have yielded progress in addressing them, though more work remains. This brief offers a snapshot of several strategies the state has employed to expand postsecondary access without race-conscious policies or practices. Drawing on conversations with K–12 and college access practitioners, researchers, and advocates in the state, we highlight what has worked, where challenges remain, and what lessons policymakers in other states can learn as they chart their own paths forward in the post-SFFA era.  \nWHAT STEPS ARE BEING TAKEN TO EXPAND COLLEGE ACCESS  \nIN CALIFORNIA?  \nWhile no single policy change can eliminate the many barriers historically marginalized students face in pursuing a college degree, California’s approach illustrates what deliberate and sustained action can accomplish in a race-neutral context. Three strategies stand out:  \n1. Strengthening clear pathways from highschool to college and career  \n2. Investing in robust data infrastructure  \n3. Rethinking recruitment, admissions, and enrollment strategies at selective institutions  \n1. 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