THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAI.
VOL.101.NO.34
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 are disproportionately underrepresented in attendance 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 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 minorities grow over the seven years I've been here as a student and then a graduate," 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 minors at Iowa, because there are not as many urban areas to draw from," Lawrence said. "It is hard to find the people it 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 minorities as it should be" he said. "It is not just an issue of sexual harassment, but it is also based on sexual persecution."
Bergman said that hate crimes had increased in the community and at the university but that he hoped it was making intends 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. NU</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></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
*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.
"At MU, we use the term minority and Black almost interchangeably," he said. "Occasionally, the Black students and staff tell their concerns
we feel like our results are gratifying but are still not satisfying." Smith said.
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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as surprised that his television was not censored, and he told he did not receive criticism be government," he said.
said he did not think a gov-ernal from the Soviet Union have been able to present a new Soviet Union as a Notkin.
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ers said she would encourage e to "come out of the closet"
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ers said she fought every day life for the end of discrimina-
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