Trinity Gains in African-American Admissions
Survey notes largest gain in first-year
enrollment, up 111 percent over 2003
In a survey of black student enrollment at the nation’s top-ranked colleges and universities, published in the autumn 2004 edition of
The Journal of Blacks In Higher Education (JBHE), Trinity leads other liberal arts colleges in the percentage gain of African-American students in the first-year class.
Among the highest-ranked liberal arts colleges surveyed by
JBHE, Trinity posted the largest gain in black enrollments over those from a year ago.
JBHE noted that African-American first-year enrollment at
Trinity rose 111.1 percent, from 18 to 38 students, in 2004. With a
total class percentage of blacks for the entering class in 2004 at 6.7
percent, Trinity is tied with Vassar College for seventh place in
African-American enrollment. Trinity also ranked seventh in long-term
gains of blacks in the first-year class, up 65.2 percent in the last
decade.
According
to Anthony Berry, associate director of admissions and coordinator of
multicultural recruitment, there are a number of reasons for the
increase. “We can assume that a wide variety of factors contributed to
the increase in the racial diversity of this year’s first-year class,”
he says. “But we believe a good measure of our success can be
attributed to the continued sharing of responsibility among all staff
members for recruiting students of color, increased efforts to develop
productive relationships with national college access programs, and
our commitment to fully finance a student’s demonstrated need.”
Berry
adds that admissions personnel now visit more secondary schools in
diverse urban areas, explaining, “Intensified efforts to recruit
students of color have increased our visibility and enabled us to
reach students who otherwise might not have considered Trinity as an
option during their college search process.”
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