Friday, January 23, 2009

Thoughts on a problem

Currently I am working with the student organization CAAS (Council of African American Students) to help solve their problem of how to get more students of color to attend this mostly white school. Every year CAAS goes to many Urban schools to recruit minorities to SCSU. While they are able to get the students up here for a tour of the school, many are detered from registering because of the racial issues they have heard about in the media. What can I do to find out better ways to get the students to register here. We need more diversity on the campus but people are too scared to come. Maybe a mentoring program could set up so that the students who do decide to come here dont feel alienated and can have an outlet to express their daily struggles.
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  1. RachelJanuary 25, 2009 at 1:42 PM

    Hi Nadiea,

    This is a great post. Although I know that what you say is true, has CAAS, Multicultural Student Services, Admissions, or any other body on campus ever collected official statistics on why students of color do not want to enroll at SCSU after they come for the tour? (There are so many factors that affect someone's decision to go to college--distance from home, finances, family obligations, etc.)

    Before I moved to St. Cloud, I did a lot of research about the area and read about the swastika incidents on campus. I also made a friend in town who used to have skinheads living across the street from her, and they had a swastika made from Christmas lights up in their living room window! I told someone about this skinhead house, and this person told the mayor, and the week after that, according to my friend, the skinheads were evicted. I do not know if it was due to their activities, or if they were not keeping up payments on the house, but I saw firsthand that something was done about these characters, and quickly. So in some ways, the city of St. Cloud is making an effort.

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