@twoinanddone and @ucbalumnus Yes, thank you, those were the figures I had looked at. Clemson even has a slightly higher percentage of white students than UVM and UNH, two states with few minority residents. Out of curiosity I just checked University of Mississippi and its general pop. is 37.7% black per the census quickfacts website @ucbalumnus mentions, and 13% black student body per CB. Even if the figures aren’t exact because of college age demographics it is an eye opener, and I would want to know why a public university isn’t enrolling a fair representation of its residents, and what they were doing about it.
As a comparison, two southwest public universities University of New Mexico and University of Arizona have similar figures between its resident population and public university students:
NM: census 38.1% white non-hispanic; 48.5% hispanic
UNM: 35% white; 46% hispanic (per CB)
AZ: census 55.5% white non-hispanic; 30.9% hispanic
UAZ: 51% white non-hispanic; 26% hispanic