THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAI.
VOL.101.NO.34
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
HURSDAY, 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 accounted for 43.5% of enrollment at 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 42 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 1989, Oregon's minority enrollment was 8.3 percent, which ranks fifth of the 11 schools. Figures for Fall 1990 are not yet available.
"Ive watched the number of minorities grow over the seven years I've been here as a student and then a graduate. No, he said." We have a promising future.
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.
iowa ranks sixth among the 11 schools with 7.5 percent minority enrollment
"It is hard to recruit very many minitors 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 city or 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 minorities as it should be," he said. "It is not just an issue of sexism, but it is also based on sexual persuasion."
Bergman said that hate crimes had increased in the community and at the university but that he hoped it was making inroads 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. NJ</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.
"A 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,"aid. "All these people are nee are brainwashing the But most of them don't"
1 began the lecture with a
1 continued them throughout
ire
T. Alexander, KU professor of said Notkin was an open and speaker and that he enjoyed s jokes
may be surprised that I will jokes, but political jokes are noise to the censorship of our ideas; to illustrate the use of a problem.
nder said he thought it was! how quickly Glasnost had changes in the Soviet Union. amazing how fast Glasnost lived everything up." Alexandra is five, and pressing is five. Five or 10 years ahead think I would see these in my lifetime."
...orums coordinator for
UoN Activities, said one
nokin was chosen to lecture
on the war of his city in the Soviet Union.
is surprised that his television was not censored, and he told t he did not receive criticism we government," he said.
said he did not think a govern-
ficial from the Soviet Union
could be able to present a
active of the Soviet Union as
notKin.
tion
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fight for gay and lesbian
*ter the (1887) mar com a-
spirit was brought out," i
idem "more people began to
learn English," he says, in
age in the past decade.
gls, GLSOK members will eat fliers in the Kansas Union the history of gay and lesbian ties in Washington. GLSOK will show a historical tenacy at its 7:30 p.m. meet
ers said she would encourage to "come out of the closet"
people don't realize how many a are gav." she said.
ars said she fought every day life for the end of discrimina-
hind the scenes it's an every-rocess," she said. "You just everyday."
hat can Chancellor (Gene A.) do when a portion of the ats still feel this way” Jackson