Monon Recap
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Tuesday, November, 17, 2015
Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
vol. 164, issue 21
Admissions tries to branch out, recruit diverse students from diverse areas BY MARIA RUMMEL
news@thedepauw.com The office of admissions at DePauw University is making the effort to be more transparent and inclusive across the board. Vice President of Admission and Financial Aid Cindy Babington held a round table event last week to share recently compiled admissions data and start conversations as to where DePauw is going in the near future and over the next decade. “I would like to get faculty engaged in understanding really what we’re working with here,” said Babington of the event last Tuesday. The fact of the matter is, the majority of DePauw students are from Indiana and Illinois. “[In that area] we are very well-known,” said Babington. In the class of 2019, just over two thirds of the domestic students are from Indiana or Illinois. According to the data Babington presented last week to the faculty, the demographic of college-age students from these
two states will shift in the next 14 years. Babington reported a 14.8 percent decrease in white students and a 8.9 percent decrease in black students across the country over the next 14 years. At the same time, students who identify as Hispanic or something other than black or white are reaching college age at a much higher rate over the same period. The national trend appears to be consistent across both Indiana and Illinois. The implication of this information is something that Babington and her team in admissions believe they should be aware of, but by no means does it indicate that Babington and her team see a reason to decrease their efforts in either Indiana or Illinois. “It’s just not something that you can do on a dime flip. We still have to rely on students from Indiana/Illinois.” Babington believes that a strong recruitment effort in these areas to still be very important. Indiana and IlAdmissions linois are home to many of Decont. on pg. 4 Pauw’s feeder
Junior Maggie Wetzel shows prospective students around DePauw University on Monday afternoon. REBECA BAGDOCIMO / THE DEPAUW
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