BOULDER, Colo.—University of Colorado officials say this year’s freshman class is the most diverse in the history of the Boulder campus.
The Daily Camera reports ( ) 1,199 U.S. minority students make up 22 percent of the class of 2016. Chancellor Phil DiStefano says when considering only Colorado students, minorities make up 26 percent of the in-state freshman class—an increase of 20 percent over the past five years.
But that compares with 33 percent among Colorado public high school graduates, a gap DiStefano says he wants to erase by 2020.
The university has a number of programs that help build a diverse incoming class, ranging from a pre-collegiate program that preps middle-school students who will be the first in their families to go to college to a “diversity sampler” that hosts potential students at campus events.
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Information from: Daily Camera,
