UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley says the companies’ concerns led to campus initiatives to attract minorities.
Henderson was named the associate dean of diversity in the college of engineering in 2001. In that capacity, he hired administrators to recruit and retain undergraduate minorities.
Those efforts appear to have paid off, as have programs designed to prepare high school minorities throughout the state, he said. Minority enrollment has begun creeping up in the College of Engineering and the university as a whole.
Last spring a division of Procter & Gamble returned to recruit at the college. An Alcoa official says that firm may follow suit, although other companies appear to be taking a wait-and-see approach.
— Associated Press
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