sacrao 2016 oklahoma

SACRAO 2016 Oklahoma

Patrick Nolan

Deputy Head of Student Administration

University of the West of England, Bristol

SACRAO

• The Southern Association of Collegiate

Registrars and Admissions Officers

• Which is part of AACRAO – the American

Association of Collegiate Registrars and

Admissions Officers

UWE Bristol

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The SACRAO Programme

Sessions…

Historically Black Colleges and

Universities • 1890 – began to admit black students or create

separate institutions

• 1965 – Higher Education Act – “…any

historically black college or university that was

established prior to 1964, whose principal

mission was, and is, the education of black

Americans.”

Historically Black Colleges and

Universities • About 4,100 colleges and universities in

the US

• 103 HBCUs

• Very popular – role models, peer support

strong

Historically Black Colleges and

Universities

• Increasing efforts made to diversify in

order to survive as institutions

• Bluefield State College is a designated

HBCU but has about 90% white students

Historically Black Colleges and

Universities • “No institution can prohibit a student from

applying or being accepted based on race, but

race can be taken into consideration in a

university’s attempt to increase diversity on

campus.”

Loretta McDonald, Dean, Office of Recruitment

and Admission, Fisk University, Nashville,

Tennessee

SACRAO Social events

SACRAO Social events

SACRAO 2017

• St. Petersburg Beach Florida, 12 to 15

February

• Murfreesboro, Nashville, Tennessee -

2018