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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Friday December 4,1987 Vol. 98,No.72
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Black enrollment drop at KU is part of trend
Bv MARK TILFORD
Staff writer
While overall enrollment continues to increase at the University of Kansas, black student enrollment has decreased 9 percent from last fall and 15 percent from the fall of 1981. University of Kansas figures show.
Black student enrollment is at 716 students this semester.
Blacks now make up 2.7 percent of the University's overall enrollment. th
The figures reflect students enrolled at the Lawrence campus, the Capitol Complex in Topeka and the Regents Center in Overland Park. They do not include students at the medical centers in Kansas City or Wichita.
Since last fall, overall KU enrollment has increased by 2.4 percent.
"It's significant," said Marshall Jackson, assistant director of admissions at KU. "That's a big drop, I wasn't expecting that big of a drop"
when expecting the calling of a drop Jackson said he didn't think most KU officials had taken real notice of the drop.
The problem, he said, reflects a national trend of decreasing black presidents.
But the problem has not been ignored, according to other KU officials.
"Have we taken cognizance of it? You bet we've taken cognizance of it," said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Ambler the current economy and federal budget were part of the
For example, two-thirds of a student's financial aid package in the past often comprised grants and scholarships, which do not have to be paid back. Now two-thirds of a financial aid package often comes from
loans and work. Ambler said.
That greater financial burden puts more of a strain on minority students.
One change designed to help minority students, Ambler said, has been to change the immediate supervisor of the office of minority affairs. The director now reports directly to Ambler's office. That puts the office more in touch with student concerns, Ambler said.
The office previously reported to
the CEO of the executive vice
chairman.
Administrators also are working to find a new director of minority affairs. Vernell Spearman, the director, is stepping down for personal reasons and will be announced by the beginning of the spring semester, Ambler said.
"It is a very tragic thing," Spearman said of the enrollment drop. "I
was not expecting a drop that large. It means that we must certainly increase our recruiting efforts."
Also, Ambler said, a new admissions staff member recently has been placed at the Regent Center to help students from the Kansai City area.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Executive Vice Chancellor Judith Ramaley are looking closely at the decrease, Ambler said.
"It doesn't come as much of a shock, but it doesn't lessen the worry about it."
Other people have other reasons for KU's decline.
Richard Lee, director of KU Supportive Educational Services, said that tighter out-of-state admissions requirements also were discouraging blacks from coming to KU.
"The parents of a black student approached me at a meeting the
other day and asked, 'Is KU working toward the elimination of black students?' " Lee said.
Brian Dougherty, Black Student Union president, said the atmosphere of an predominantly white campus often gave black students a reason not to come to KU.
Ambler said that expanding KU's orientation program to include programs emphasizing cultural diversity has made the university hoped to take in the future.
"It's a continuing concern to the University," Ambler said.
University, Number sales. Concern about black enrollment also exists at KU's five peer institutions.
At the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, both overall enrollment and black enrollment are slightly but, the number of black
See ENROLL, p. 6, col. 1
State may hire staff to help with health plan
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