The UC Davis student body this year is the most diverse in the history of the campus, with nonwhite ethnic students making up more than 45 percent of undergraduates. This trend has increased at the same time overall enrollment has decreased -- 6 percent since the fall of 1990. The gradual downturn is the result of continuing efforts to align actual enrollments with the number of students funded by the state. Final fall term figures show a total enrollment of 22,442, a decrease of 44 students from last fall's enrollment and 7 more than anticipated. Between 1990 and 1994, the number of students identifying themselves as American Indian, Asian, Black, Chicano, East Indian, Filipino or Latino increased 16 percent, going from 7,388 to 8,598. The number of white students enrolled in fall 1994 is 19 percent fewer than in 1990, with 49.4 percent of the undergraduate student body comprising white students, according to a student ethnic census report by the student affairs research and information office. "This marks the fruition of important campus programs that have worked to recruit and select highly qualified students of diverse interests, ethnic groups and socioeconomic backgrounds to the campus," says Gary Tudor, director of admissions and outreach. "As a public institution that serves California, UC Davis aims to reflect the diversity that exists in the state."