VOL.101.NO.34
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAI.
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1990
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KU's minority percentage eighth among peer schools
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
KU ranks eighth out of 11 Big Eight universities and peer institutions in percentage of minority students enrolled, according to enrollment figures released in the past year by the schools.
According to figures released Oct. 1 by the KU department of educational services, KU minority students at the University of Kansas attended all of the University of Kansas
The University of Oklahoma's 12.8 percent minority enrollment in Fall 1990 ranks highest among the 11 universities.
The University of Nebraska has the lowest percentage of minority students of the 11 universities at 4.2 percent
All of KU's five peer institutions rank higher than KU in percentage of minority enrollment. Peer institutions are the University of Oregon, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Iowa, the University of Colorado and the University of Oklahoma.
Peer schools are similar to KU in size and mission, with the states being similar demographically, economically and in the manner that their systems of higher education are organized.
Phil Reid, adviser and admissions officer at the University of Oregon, said new minority programs were being formed at the university.
In Fall 1899, Oregon's minority enrollment was 8.3 percent, which ranks fifth of the 11 schools. Figures for Fall 1990 are not yet available.
"I've watched the number of minorites grow over the seven years I've been here as a student and then a graduate," said I. "We have a promising future."
iowa ranks sixth among the 11 schools with 7.5 percent minority enrollment.
Jean Lawrence, assistant to the registrar at the University of Iowa, said a program targeted toward minority recruitment called "Opportunity at Iowa" had increased the number of minority students at the university.
"It is hard to recruit very many minors at Iowa, because there are not as many urban areas to draw from." Lawrence said. "It is hard to find the people if you don't have the closest city we have is Chicago."
Bob Bergman, who works in the Office of Institutional Research and Planning at Iowa State University, said the university was attempting to increase diversity on campus, which is in Ames.
"The Ames community is not as sensitive to minitortics as it should be" he said. "It is not just an issue of privacy, but also the issue is also based on sexual precaution."
Bergman said that hate crimes had increased in the community and at the university but that he hoped the team was making intros to change that.
"We are making a real attempt to make students more receptive to the opportunities available to them concerning diversity," he said.
Gary Smith, director of admissions and the registrar at the University of
Minority enrollment at Big 8 and Peer Institutions*
<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Black</th><th>Hispanic</th><th>American Indian</th><th>Asian-American</th><th>Minority enrollment</th><th>Percent minority</th><th>Total enrollment</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1. OU</td><td>958</td><td>354</td><td>598</td><td>550</td><td>2,460</td><td>12.8</td><td>19,246</td></tr><tr><td>2. N. Carolina</td><td>2,060</td><td>201</td><td>142</td><td>631</td><td>3,034</td><td>12.7</td><td>23,852</td></tr><tr><td>3. CU</td><td>472</td><td>1,297</td><td>167</td><td>1,196</td><td>3,132</td><td>12.4</td><td>25,176</td></tr><tr><td>4. OSU</td><td>465</td><td>166</td><td>715</td><td>276</td><td>1,622</td><td>9.0</td><td>18,000</td></tr><tr><td>5. Oregon (89)</td><td>217</td><td>294</td><td>143</td><td>820</td><td>1,474</td><td>8.3</td><td>17,818</td></tr><tr><td>6. Iowa</td><td>782</td><td>453</td><td>77</td><td>781</td><td>2,093</td><td>7.5</td><td>28,045</td></tr><tr><td>7. MU</td><td>909</td><td>187</td><td>74</td><td>341</td><td>1,511</td><td>6.1</td><td>24,972</td></tr><tr><td>8. KU</td><td>644</td><td>424</td><td>158</td><td>521</td><td>1,747</td><td>6.0</td><td>28,909</td></tr><tr><td>9. KSU</td><td>519</td><td>308</td><td>63</td><td>210</td><td>1,100</td><td>5.7</td><td>19,367</td></tr><tr><td>10. ISU (89)</td><td>640</td><td>268</td><td>30</td><td>353</td><td>1,291</td><td>5.1</td><td>25,489</td></tr><tr><td>10. NU</td><td>440</td><td>280</td><td>65</td><td>249</td><td>1,034</td><td>4.2</td><td>24,453</td></tr></tbody></table>
source: Kansan reporter
Missouri at Columbia, said the university was making stronger attempts to attract minorities to camps.
"We feel like our results are gratifying but are still not satisfying," Smith said.
*includes undergraduate and graduate students*
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Smith said that Missouri's primary goal was to attract Black students, faculty and staff to the university.
KANSAN
"At MU, we use the term minority and Black almost interchangeably," he said. "Occasionally, the Black students and staff tell their concerns
be known. The numbers are growing, but not at a rate satisfying to them or us "
Smith said the university stepped up recruitment to try to attract more Black role models to the campus.
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go on its own path and not anything from the West," said. "All these people are ney are brainstashing the But most of them don't . . ."
Soviet people generally are
t about the future, he said.
now have the freedom to do
like," Notin said. "Schools
ose their curriculum and
s. My students also have
eedmies. They can discuss,
ct and make declarations in
1 began the lecture with a
2 continued them throughout
3 are
F. Alexander, KU professor of said Notkin was an open and speaker and that he enjoyed jokes.
may be surprised that I will jokes, but political jokes are onse to the censorship of our leaders to illustrate the problem of "a problem."
amazing how fast Glasport
medied everything up," Alexa-
d. "Now the Soviet press is
five. Five or 10 years ago, I
think I would see these
s in my lifetime."
nder said he thought it was ; how quickly Glasnost had changes in the Soviet Union.
- Hill, forums coordinator for
Union Activities, said one
Notkin was chosen to lecture
of his city in the Soviet Union
is surprised that his television was not censored, and he told he t he did not receive criticism be government," he said.
*ter the (1987) mar com a-
spirit was brought out,*
*idle "More people began to
work,"* *in the 1990s,
in the last decade.*
said he did not think a gov-
ernorial from the Soviet Union
have been able to present a
plan for Russia, Soviet Union as
as Notkin.
ut Day
tion
fight for gay and lesbian
iy, GLSOK members will put fliers in the Kansas Union the history of gay and lesbian ties in Washington. GLSOK will show a historical tentary at its 7:30 p.m. meet-
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people don't realize how many are a gay," she said. rs said she fought every day life for the end of discrimination-
find the scenes it's an every-
process," she said. "You just
veryday."
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