UW-Madison`s Black student enrollment has never exceeded 3%. Why does the school make so little progress, decade after decade?

Clay, a 6-foot-8-inch, 255-pound center, came to UW-Madison to play football. But in this moment, he was confronting players from his own team...

...UW-Madison didn’t start formally tracking race and ethnicity until the 1974-75 school year. Then, 2.2% of the student body identified as Black. In fall 2021 — with the overall student body more than 10,000 students larger — the percentage of students that identifies as "Black/African American only" remained at 2.2%. Another 1.4% of the student body identifies as Black/African American in addition to another race or races, for a total of 1,756 Black students on a campus of 47,936 in fall 2021....