Tuscaloosa, AL – Black student enrollment is up for the fourth straight year at the University of Alabama with the university enrolling a record 3,060 black students this fall.
According to UA data, black students make up 11.3 percent of the school's 27,052 students this fall, up from 11 percent of all students in 2006. The two-year upward trend reverses a five-year decline in which the percentage of black students dropped from a high of 13.7 percent in 2001. The decline in blacks as a percentage of students came during President Robert Witt's growth plan that saw total enrollment rocket from just under 20,000 students in fall 2002.
But this fall marks the first time since Witt arrived that black enrollment surged more than white enrollment.
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