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with only 303 students eligible for
admission to state institutions, you
can imagine the significant obsta
cles (Oregon University System)
schools have in helping this popu
lation get to college.”
According to statistics from the
2000 census, Oregon has 55,662
black individuals — or 1.6 percent of
the population. These numbers are
dramatically lower than those of Ari
zona, California and Washington,
both in terms of total population and
percentage of the population.
“The recruitment of students of col
or is often the most challenging task
we face in admissions,” Hulick-Baiza
said. “Not because minority students
don’t want to go to college—we do—
but because both students and univer
sities have to contend with numerous
social, political, economic and educa
tional obstacles that make it much
more difficult to make it to
college. The most basic problems we
face in getting underrepresented stu
dents into college are not found at the
college level, but at much earlier
stages of their education.”
The value of a college education is
Percentage of blacks in total state population
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
California Washington Arizona Oregon
n’t a priority for many black males,
members of the Black Student Union
said. Some black men grow up want
ing to play professional sports or to be
recording stars, not to become doc
tors or lawyers.
But Huhndorf said the University
could help remedy the problem by of
fering courses that pertain to the in
terests of ethnic minorities, by hiring
more faculty of color and by providing
more academic scholarships to un
derrepresented groups.
“This is a university that hasn’t pri
oritized diversity in terms of academ
ics. There’s absolutely more that can
SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000
be done,” Huhndorf said. “The Uni
versity has dragged its feet forever on
this issue.”
In May 2001, the University estab
lished the Center on Diversity and
Community to research and study di
versity on campus. Steve Bender, a
CODAC member and University law
professor, said the group works to
evaluate the University on its diversity
and on issues that threaten diversity.
Bender said he and many other facul
ty members have been pressing the
University to address diversity issues
for years, but to no avail.
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