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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED316283 AUTHOR: Head, Ronald B.
TITLE: Minority Enrollment Report, Fall Semester 1989.
Research Report Number 1-90.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1990
NOTE: 27 p.
ABSTRACT: Each year, Piedmont Virginia Community College
(PVCC) examines longitudinal data on fall term minority
enrollment to identify trends which may be of interest to
those involved in planning student recruitment and retention
activities. The study is designed to gather longitudinal
minority enrollment data and to examine trends which may
assist those involved in planning student recruitment and
retention activities. The findings of the 1989 study
include: (1) 508 minority students enrolled at PVCC during
fall 1989, representing 11.4% of the student body; (2)
Blacks represented 9.18% of the student body and 80.5% of
the minority student population; (3) of the remaining
minority students, 62 were Asian or Pacific Islanders, 21
were Hispanic, 3 were American Indians or Alaska Natives,
and 13 classified themselves as "other"; (4) between fall
1988 and fall 1989, minority student enrollment increased
8.5% compared to a 6.1% total student enrollment increase;
(5) 30.8% of all Black students attending PVCC in fall 1989
were male, 38.1% of all White students were male, and 43.4%
of all minority students other than Blacks were male; (6)
new Black student enrollment increased 21% between fall 1988
and fall 1989; (7) fewer Blacks than Whites were full-time
students at PVCC during fall 1989; and (8) the second-year
retention rate was higher for White than Black students.
These trends suggest that PVCC is intensifying its efforts
to draw and retain minority students, but it is still a long
way from meeting its minority student recruitment and
retention goals. (JMC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; American-Indians; Asian
Americans; Community-Colleges; Declining-Enrollment;
Enrollment-Rate; Hispanic-Americans; Pacific-Americans;
School-Holding-Power; Student-Educational-Objectives;
Student-Recruitment; Two-Year-Colleges; White-Students
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Black-Students; *Enrollment-Trends;
*Minority-Groups; *School-Demography; *Student
Characteristics; *Two-Year-College-Students
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