Haas has worked under a constraint that few of its peers have faced, until now. As a public university in California, Haas has been barred from considering race in admissions since 1996, when voters in the state passed Proposition 209. Within a few years, minority admissions to Haas plummeted, from 14% before the ban to just 5%. Over the past six years, the school has spent millions of dollars and built up an office of five people focused solely on becoming more inclusive.