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(AP) — College enrollment in
creased 48 percent for minorities in
the 1990s, but their educational
opportunities continue to trail
those of white students, a new
report from the American Council
on Education found.
The gap points out the need for
increased financial aid and im
proved preparation for young
people entering colleges from ur
ban school districts, W illiam B.
Harvey, director of the council’s
Office o f Minorities in Education,
said Monday as the report was
released.
The Washington-based coun
cil’s annual study o f minorities in
higher education said that while
minorities made up 28 percent of
the undergraduate population in
2000, they earned only 21.8 per
cent o f the bachelor's degrees
awarded that year.
Harvey attributed part of the
gap to students from low income
households being unable to bal
ance studies with part-time and
sometimes nearly full-time employ
ment.
Kai Mumpfield, administrative
vice president for the Black Stu
dent Union at Auburn University,
agreed.
BALANCINGACr
“A lot o f our students c a n ’t
stay in school. If they had a
choice, they would. But fin an
cially they c a n ’t afford to stay
here,” she said. “ It com es dow n
to a choice betw een going to
w ork or going to school.”
A complicating factor, Harvey
said, is the lack of qualified faculty,
advanced placement courses and
educational infrastructures in many
of the school systems dispatching
minorities to colleges and univer
sities.
Harvey called the report “an
opportunity to improve the rela
tionship between the elementary,
secondary and post-secondary
community. There is a big disjunc
tion between those three and it is
certainly in the interest of colleges
and universities to pay more atten
tion to the students as they move
through the process.”
The report was compiled using
federal Department of Education
statistics. Slightly more than 4 mil
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From emotional abuse to murder, the effects of
intimate partner violence range from subtly debili
tating to lethal.
During 1999 and 2000, there were 46 women who
died by homicide in Oregon and of these almost 60
percent were killed by their husbands, ex-husbands,
partners or ex-partners.
Intimate partner violence is a major public health
issue and health care providers have a major role in
lessening its prevalence, scope and severity.
Intimate partner violence is characterized as a
pattern of coercive behaviors that may include
repeated battering and injury, psychological abuse,
sexual assault, progressive social isolation, depri
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Depending on the scope of definition, an esti
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While the report found increas
ing minority enrollment at inde
pendent colleges and universities,
nearly 80 percent o f minority stu
dents attended a public university
in 1999, the report said. That com
pares with 76 percent of white stu
dents.
College enrollment of Hispan
ics grew 68 percent during the
1990s, the report said. Antonio R.
Flores, the president of the His
panic Association of Colleges and
Universities in San Antonio, Tex.,
credited the increase to “sheer
demographic growth.”
Looking at the Hispanic stu
dent population, Flores agreed with
Harvey that there is a need for
better college preparation in high
school and elementary school.
“We are serving the neediest
population in the country with the
least amount of federal support,
and that has to change,” Flores
said.
jected to intimate partner violence each year.
Yet, fewer than one in four Oregon women who are
victims report that they discussed the abuse with their
health care providers.
Public health officials are urging health care provid
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As clinicians and public health providers, we must
increase our efforts to identify and respond to patients
at risk for intimate partner violence.
Intimate partner violence is a significant public health
problem that affects a large proportion of the population.
The role of health care providers in the prevention of
serious morbidity or even death is critical.
Asking a patient if she is in an unsafe home, referring
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