“Retention is important,” Davenport adds. “We would rather enroll fewer students and get them more attention and have them be successful, than enroll a bulk of students.”
Maurice Pendleton, a junior music industry major from Minneapolis where MSU recruits most of its students of color, has watched the number of students of color grow suddenly before his eyes. And it has encouraged him, he says.
“It makes me want to stay here longer and do as much as I can to help this college diversify the campus,” he says. “It makes me want to work harder.”
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