Minority Enrollment Low at Pennsylvania Universities, Report Says
HARRISBURG, Pa.
The student population of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities is overwhelmingly White, and minority enrollment has stayed essentially flat over a five-year period, according to statistics presented to the system’s governing board last month.
The five-year diversity report said that the number of minority students enrolled in the State System of Higher Education has hovered at or slightly above 8 percent between 1997 and 2001, compared to 16 percent to 17 percent combined enrollment at Pennsylvania’s four state-related universities during the same period.
