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UO increases racial diversity but low-income undergrad enrollment drops

From the official IR website here. Undergrad minority enrollment has nearly doubled since 2005 to 27%, but the percentage of low-income Pell grant eligible students peaked at 26% in 2011, and has fallen slightly since.

5 Comments

  1. jackmccoy 04/24/2017

    Is this because there are fewer eligible students for pell because incomes have gone up? Not necessarily bad news…

      • jackmccoy 04/24/2017

        Hmm, so is this a trend specific to Eugene, or the consequence of free community college statewide, or higher state tuition??

  2. Captain Nemo 04/24/2017

    All the more reason for the UO and for the faculty to support the SAIL Program.

  3. Ka-ching 04/28/2017

    Ka-ching. This is all about the money. You just can’t squeeze enough out of the poor kids to pay the “excellence” bloated salaries of Schill and his ilk.
    For years the UO has used an increasing share of its financial aid to attract high-paying wealthy students rather than helping the poor. This “enrollment management” has filled coffers but left the UO a leader in income inequality. The UO now has 56 percent of its students from the wealthiest 20 percent, but less than five percent from the poorest 20 percent. The disparity has left the UO ranking in the top 10 percent of all colleges in median income. The New York Times posted the data, showing a marked downturn in economic diversity at the UO, at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/university-of-oregon
    Time for the governor and legislature to retake our state university from the out of town millionaire board that keeps jacking tuition.

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