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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