Racial Issues at UD?

stellacastor
Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:41:23 +0000

I can’t speak from personal experience (I’m a rising freshman AND white, so I really don’t have any opinion/perspective here), but I can offer some numbers and facts.

UD’s total undergrad population is 17,575 students as of 2015. Of these, only 5.3% (926) students were African-American, behind Hispanic (7.4%) and White (74.8%). [ https://sites.udel.edu/ire/files/2015/12/21-ugdiversity-o55dx6.pdf ]

UD has multiple multicultural RSOs, including the Center for Black Culture and the Delaware African Student Association. [ https://studentcentral.udel.edu/organization/cbc and https://studentcentral.udel.edu/organization/delawareafricanstudentassociation ]

I also know the Honors program at UD has its own multicultural organization, but I forget the name of it. Sorry