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Article: INVEST IN DIVERSITY AT VIRGINIA TECH
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- August 31, 2008
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Virginia Tech has few black students. It has been like that for a
while.
Tech officials have some new ideas about how they can encourage
more minority students to give the Blacksburg school another look,
but pulling it off will require a serious commitment from the people
who control the purse strings.
Though 20 percent of Virginians are black, enrollment at Tech
languishes below 5 percent. A similar pattern emerges for Hispanics -
- 6 percent of the state, but 3 percent on campus. Meanwhile, Asians
buck that trend, enrolling above their percentage of the state
population.
Some of the reluctance by minority students is unsurprising.
Tech, after all, still has a dormitory named after a member ...