Minority enrollment at Kansas University increased a little more than 2 percent during the past decade, according to KU’s Office of Institutional Research and Planning. In 1990, 1,747 of Lawrence and Edwards campus students were minorities  a total of 6.6 percent. Ten years later, the number had grown to 2,299 out of 25,920 students, or 8.9 percent.

The rate of undergraduate minorities who earned bachelor’s degrees in fiscal year 2001, which began in the summer of 2000, was just slightly lower than the percentage of minorities enrolled. Of 1,808 undergraduate minorities  9.2 percent of KU’s undergraduate population  302, or 8.8 percent, earned one of the 3,429 bachelor’s degrees awarded.