Sunday, August 06, 2006

Black colleges vie for Hispanic surge

The Washington Times reports:
Pressed by stiff competition for their traditional students, historically black colleges are making a push to recruit Hispanics.
The campuses are hiring Hispanic recruiters, distributing brochures featuring Hispanic students and establishing special scholarships for Hispanics in an attempt to tap the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority.
At the historically black Texas Southern University in Houston, the school has started five Hispanic student organizations, including fraternities and sororities, to help make the campus more inviting.
"I tell them, 'There's a place for you and a need for Latinos to be present on [historically black] campuses,'" said Nelson Santiago, a recruiter for Howard University in Washington. The Puerto Rican native talks to students about his experiences as a student at Howard, where he graduated in 2001.
Sounds like there's not enough Blacks to fill the Black Colleges.