LAS VEGAS
Nevada’s two main universities
should postpone making a “B” average the admission standard, said the president
of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas after a new report appeared to find
fewer minorities making the grade for admission.
“UNLV is
committed to quality and we think [the GPA increase] is a long-term part of
UNLV achieving its mission,” president David Ashley said. “However it cannot be
at the disadvantage of any group.”
Ashley said
postponing until 2009 a plan to raise GPA requirements to 3.0, or the
equivalent of a B, would give him and University
of Nevada, Reno,
President Milton Glick time to recruit more minority students.
The number of
students admitted to UNLV declined for every ethnic group, including Whites,
between the fall of 2005 and fall of 2006, according to a Nevada System of
Higher Education report.
Black and
Hispanic students appeared to have been affected the most, with Black
admissions falling 26 percent and Hispanics admissions falling 18 percent.
Hispanic admissions and enrollment also dropped at UNR,
according to the report, which was released Thursday. But Black students
admissions at the campus increased slightly.
