Private Colleges Serving Students of Color - Alverno Dwarfs UW in Percentage
of Blacks and Graduation Rate
By Bruce Murphy, Milwaukee
Journal Sentinal, March 21, 2004
This article spotlights Alverno College's (WI) ability to better enroll
and better graduate students of color than one of the state's major public
institutions, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Excerpts:
...For minority students, who may find large universities alienating,
private colleges also offer smaller classes and more contact with faculty.
That may be a key reason that black enrollment in Wisconsin's private
colleges grew by 64% since 1991, compared with just 38% for colleges in
the UW System.
As a result, the enrollment of Wisconsin's private colleges
is now 6.1% black, compared with just 2.7% black for the UW System.
...On average, about 47% of African-Americans enrolling at Alverno get
their degree within six years, a level of success that far surpasses that
at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where just 13% of the most recent
cohort of black women graduated within that time. UWM's record for black
men was even worse: just 7.6% of black freshman who enrolled in 1996 had
graduated six years later.
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