Moreover, in recent years black colleges have generally seen significant increases in white enrollment.

Statistics show that white enrollment in the public schools dropped to 30 percent in the last decade, from about 53 percent.

And in the same decade, white enrollment fell substantially in schools attended by black students.

During the same period, white enrollment declined to 58 percent of school population, from 78 percent.

In the same period, white enrollment increased 2.9 percent, the vast majority at the predominantly white campuses.

But it showed corresponding losses of white enrollment, particularly in the first years of desegregation.

The study also disputes the widely held perception that white enrollment in private and parochial schools had increased as a result of desegregation.

"Every urban school district in the country has had a decline in white enrollment."

For example, white enrollment in universities has increased along with minority enrollment.

Since Judge Sand initial's decision of a decade ago, white enrollment has dropped from 53 percent to 30 percent.