African American Enrollment Falls
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Title
African American Enrollment Falls
Subject
Percentage of African American students in the incoming freshman class drops. The author interviews Shawna Burrell (President of AAA) and Kathy Lindsey (an admissions officer whose "main job is minority recruiting") regarding low levels of racial diversity in the student body and what they believe is "holding back" students of color from attending Middlebury.
Description
Volume 92, Number 2
Creator
Liz Leyden
Publisher
The Campus
Date
9/23/1993
Contributor
Liz Leyden
Coverage
"Of the 449 students in the class of 1997, only five are African American, a decrease of at least 70 percent from last year, when 17 African American students arrived on campus as first-year students. Overall, there are 59 students of color in this year's entering class, and according to the admissions office, diversity is the lowest it has been in the last five years."
"Shawna Burrell, president of the African American Alliance, agreed that there must be change. 'We've always lobbied for aggressive recruitment from the admissions office. It's really sad. A school of Middlebury's caliber is supposedly so committed to diversity."
"Shawna Burrell, president of the African American Alliance, agreed that there must be change. 'We've always lobbied for aggressive recruitment from the admissions office. It's really sad. A school of Middlebury's caliber is supposedly so committed to diversity."
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Liz Leyden, “African American Enrollment Falls,” Archives of Anti-Racist Activism, accessed October 27, 2026, https://twilightprojectantiracistrecords.middcreate.net/items/show/438.