Dr. James McCoy, associate vice president for enrollment management at Xavier University in Cincinnati, said that although roughly 12 percent of the university’s approximately 4,000 undergraduates are Black, there is room for improvement. One such area is electronic admissions, where they are losing many African-American candidates because they do not complete the admissions process.
“To me, this whole question of recruiting African-American students to college and, more important, graduating them, is essential to American success in higher education,” McCoy said. “It’s central to the mission of this institution, as a Catholic, Jesuit institution, that we serve the underserved.”
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