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GAINESVILLE, Fla. As he courts Republicans across the country, Jeb Bush boasts that an executive order he signed that ended race-based college admissions in Florida upheld conservative principles while helping minorities.
We ended up having a system where there were more African American and Hispanic kids attending our university system than prior to the system that was discriminatory, the former governor and likely presidential contender said recently at a conference of conservative activists.
But at Floridas two premier universities, black enrollment is shrinking. At the University of Florida in Gainesville and at Florida State University in Tallahassee, administrators say they worry that the trend risks diminishing their standing as world-class universities and hurts the college experience.
The black share of the UF freshman class, for instance, plunged to 6 percent in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available. That is down from 9 percent in 2011.
If we dont address this in the next two or three years, I think were going to have a problem, said Brandon Bowden, assistant vice president for student affairs at Florida State, which had a 15 percent drop in the number of black freshmen enrolled between 2000 and 2009. There will be so few black students on our campus that prospective students (who are black) will choose not to come here because they see no one who looks like them.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-bush-order-florida-universities-cope-with-shrinking-black-enrollment/2015/04/06/82d1e574-bcfe-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html?
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)it's a feature.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,246 posts)madville
(7,413 posts)It's not because more whites are attending, their percentage is actually shrinking. It's the explosion of Hispanic enrollees that have displaced Black students.
Should they limit Hispanic enrollment in order for the percentages to equalize and bring black enrollment up to a representative share of the population, around 20%?
SunSeeker
(51,771 posts)White enrollment is not "shrinking" compared to the percentage of the Florida population that is white. Nor is Hispanic enrollment "exploding" - it is merely keeping up with the Hispanic percentage of the Florida population.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/minority-enrollment-in-the-florida-state-university-system/2015/04/06/34c212f4-dcb2-11e4-a500-1c5bb1d8ff6a_graphic.html
Hispanics have not "displaced" black students, Florida admissions policies have.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)with Prop 209. Meet its chief proponent, Ward Connerly:
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)criminal cartel...how in hell would anyone ever believe that he cares for people outside his screwed-up BubbleWorld...
I suppose Florida is getting used to being near the bottom of the barrel...in almost every aspect of life.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)[quote]Black students at Florida universities are increasingly concentrated in the states lesser-known regional schools, which are in larger cities and have less stringent admissions requirements.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-bush-order-florida-universities-cope-with-shrinking-black-enrollment/2015/04/06/82d1e574-bcfe-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html? [/quote]
This is the trend in the American university system.
groundloop
(11,528 posts)repub state governments have cut education funding for our universities, upped tuition, upped housing costs, with the end result being that our major universities are getting more and more expensive. It's only the upper echelon on the economic ladder who can afford to send their kids to these schools anymore, everyone else has to settle for smaller schools.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)They are urban, commuter schools with enrollments in excess of 40,000. Classes are huge, instructors generally underpaid.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)Oh, wait, that's every day.....
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)"There will be so few black students on our campus that prospective students(who are black) will choose not to come here because they see no one who looks like them" and those that are on campus will be INVISIBLE to the majority or harassed aka the 50's all over again. Soon it'll be 'Little Rock' again. Have to desegregate and destigmatize all over again...geez
cstanleytech
(26,340 posts)so many in this country have experienced since Bush got into office as president.
JCMach1
(27,582 posts)flagship state school.
However, unless your district was rich enough to offer all AP and Honors courses you won't have a high enough GPA to get in... not to mention the bias built-in to SAT's and ACT's.