Lexington Herald-Leader: UK wins fight for black enrollment
Here’s evidence that the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville go to battle in a lot more than football and basketball.
Take the recruiting of black students.
UK announced last month that it had a 96 percent increase in the number of entering black freshmen — a big recovery from a 40 percent drop in 2005. Now it appears that some of UK’s reversal of fortune came at U of L’s expense.
U of L had an 8.9 percent decrease in black freshmen this fall, from 291 a year ago to this year’s 265, according to preliminary figures from the state Council on Postsecondary Education. Located in the Kentucky city with the biggest black population, the college also had a 3.8 percent decline in overall black enrollment — down to 2,400 from 2,496 — which includes undergraduates, graduate and professional students.
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