UI event will focus on minority enrollment

CHAMPAIGN – Victor Mullins has looked through some education statistics and doesn't like what he sees.

In January 2004, the U.S. Department of Education published "Principal Indicators of Student Academic Histories in Postsecondary Education." The report found that 91.4 percent of Asian Americans and 79.4 percent of white students entered college after high school. Hispanic students were at 70 percent, blacks at 69.5 and Native Americans at 47.2 percent. Mullins, assistant dean of the University of Illinois MBA program, hopes a local annual event goes a long way in boosting minority numbers.

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