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Part of UB Grad Schools List Few Negroes and UB to Increase Proportion of 43 Negroes in Fall, April 10, 1969

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CEX 4/10/69
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UB Grad Schools
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There are 158 foreign students some graduate departments was :
but only one American Negro ''meaningless and a sham."
among the 523 graduate students She charged the school shirked
in the engineering department of its responsibilities by not admitthe Faculty of Engineering and ting black students in the fields of
Applied Sciences at the Uni- engineering, natural sciences and 1
versity of Buffalo, according to health sciences.
university sources.
On March 26, Dr. James
The Facultyof Engineering and Moss, chairman of · the Select
Applied Sciences
has 12 de- Committee, said the university
partments including engineering, will increase the number of black
the School of Information and Li- undergraduates from the present
brary Studies, Computer Science 420 to 700 by next September. On
Studies and the graduate level, he added.
and Interdisciplinary
Research.
there should be an increase of 500 !
The American Negro student is students, or a rise from the presenrolled in the Dept. of Me- ent 90 to 140 students.
Olhcr Enrollment Figures
chanical Engineering.
90 Black Graduate Students
There are 25 Negro students im
There are 90 American Negroes the School of Education; 15 in the
among the 6,228 graduate stu- School of Social Welfare; 8 in the
dents in all departments, at UB. Faculty of Law and JurisThey make up 1.5 per cent of the prudence: 6 in the Dept. of
graduate student body. There are Mathematics: 5 in. the English
592 foreign graduate students, or Dept.; 4 each in the departments
of Oral . Biology and History; 3
9 per cent of the student body.
Students from Canada, the Re- each in Anthropology, Biology,
public of China (Taiwan), India Chemistry. Sociology and in the
and West Germany exceed the School of Nursing.
number of American Negroes in Two Negro students are in each
all educational levels of the uni- of the departments of Drama and
versity. About 76 foreign nations Speech, Industrial Relations, Liare represented on campus.
brary Science, Management and
About 510 American Negroes Political Science.
·
.
are enrolled in all levels of the
univ ersitv - 420 of them as None in 30 Departments
undergraduates. Thus, 18 per cent In addition to the Faculty of
of the American Negro students Engineering and Applied Science,
there are 15 graduate school deat UB are graduate students.
parlments which each include one
Limited Numher Elsewhere
black student.
The figures were compiled from According to records of the Select
records of the university's AdmisCommittee, there are no Nesions and Records Dept., the Se- gro students in 30 graduate school
lect Committee for Equal Oppor- departments.
tunity and the UB Foreign Stu- There are about 22,134 students
dent directory.
enrolled at the university for the 1968-1969
Data tabulated from other
school year. Two per
graduate departments also re- cent are American Negroes.
vealed a limited number of black
students.
The Faculty of Natural Sciences
has 609 students,
including 125
foreigners and 12 Negroes. This
faculty is made up of the departments of Biology, Chemistry,
. Geological Sciences, Mathematics. Natural Sciences. Physics
and Astronomy
and Statistics.
The Faculty of Health Sciences
has 366 students, including 83 foreign students and about nine
black students. The Faculty of
Health Sciences comprises 15
departments and five professional.
schools.
Charge by Build Official
The enrollment statistics were
sought after Mrs. Miriam Beale
education committee chairman of·
the civil rights federation Build.
charged the university's attempt
•at admitting black students in

BEN 4/10/69 pg. 43

UBto Increase
of 43

Proportion

Negroes in Fall

students at the State University \
of Buffalo, of which 90-roughly
1.5 per cent - are American
Negro, a statistical breakdown
revelaed today.
Negroes are outnumbered in
all educational levels at UB by
students from Canada, Taiwan
and India.
Though the bulk of the 6228
graduate students are from the
U. S., there are 592 foreign
graduate students, or 9 per cent
of the total number of graduate
students.
are
Seventy-six
nations
·represented on the UB campus ·
the figures showed.
There are 510 American
Negroes at UB, of which 18 per
cent are graduate students.
Interestingly, of the 52
graduate students in the Faculty
of Engineering and Applied
158
are foreign
Sciences,
students and only one is an
American Negro.
The figures were compiled by
the Admissions and Records
Department, the Select Committee for Equal Opportunity
and the UB Foreign Student
directory.
They were put together after
Mrs. Miriam Beale, of the
education committee of BUILD,
a Buffalo civil rights organization, charged the university's :
attempt at admitting Negroes
into some graduate departments ·

was a "sham."
UB hopes to increase the
figures next September.
It has plans to increase the
number of undergraduate blacks
from 420 to 700 and black
graduate students from 90 to
140.

The American Negro population at UB is now about 2 percent of the total student body.