What is the ethnic/racial makeup of students in the journalism program?
We attract slightly more diverse students than the college as a whole, according to 1999-2001 research data. The one exception is Hispanic students, whose numbers lag behind the colleges overall percentages by 1.9 percent. At the same time, we draw a higher percentage of females (56.1 percent) than the college as a whole (52.9 percent) an encouraging trend, since white males continue to predominate in newsrooms nationwide. In addition to encouraging more Hispanic students and other people of color, we want to recruit more out lesbians and gay men, as well as older students and students with disabilities. We are committed to the principle that journalists should reflect the diversity of the communities they cover.
