Oklahoma State University Increases Diversity Efforts
OKLAHOMA CITY
Oklahoma State University officials will meet this weekend with others across the nation to discuss efforts to increase racial diversity on college campuses, officials say.
“We’re working extremely hard internally to diversify our campus,” says Dr. Cornell Thomas, vice president for institutional diversity at OSU. “We want to make sure that we can provide more scholarships and garner continued support from the community.”
Of the 20,000 students attending classes on OSU, about 88 percent are White, about 7 percent are American Indian and about 3 percent are Black. Of 1,000 faculty members, about 20 are Black, Thomas says.
“This is a major challenge across the nation, but it’s changing,” he says.
