Table 1
Penn State’s main campus saw slight increases in its Black and Hispanic enrollments, which brought total minority enrollment to 12.5 percent of the student body, up from 11 percent in 1996. In a state where Blacks make up 10.7 percent of the population, Penn State’s Black enrollment of 4 percent, while improved over 1996, is still too low. Hispanics make up 4 percent of the state population and are slowly moving toward parity; they make up 3.1 percent of Penn State’s student body. Asians make up 5.3 percent of the student body, but 2.4 percent of the state population.
Table 2
At IUPUI, overall Black enrollment has remained stable, as they made up 9.9 percent of the student body in 1996 and 10.1 percent today. This overall enrollment is on par with Blacks’ representation of Indiana – 9.3 percent. However, Black freshmen might be feeling increasingly isolated as their numbers have dropped substantially over the past 10 years. There has been a 34 percent decline in the number of Black freshmen between 1996 and this fall. Their share of the freshman class decreased from 11.7 percent to 8.5 percent. Hispanic numbers have almost doubled, as they now make up 3.4 percent of the student body. Still, that number means they’re under-represented because Hispanics make up 4.5 percent of Indiana’s population.
Table 3
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