President's Report 2007 - Benedict College

BENEDICT
COLLEGE
BUILDING PAST SUCCESSES
INTO FUTURE ONES
As the nation’s fourth-largest Historically Black College and University (HBCU),
Benedict College both recognizes this challenge and is well on its way to
meeting it head-on.
Who do we recruit? How should we recruit them? Under the leadership of
President David H. Swinton, Benedict’s Office of Admissions and Student
Marketing actively increased efforts to both attract and retain top students.
These efforts are paying dividends. Benedict College experienced an 18.5
percent increase in the number of applications from 2006 to 2007, combined
with an equally impressive 48 percent rise in the number of mail responses
from students targeted by Benedict as future scholars at the Columbia campus.
Miss Colombia South America, Vanessa Mendoza, flew to the United States
with her mother, family members and friends to celebrate the graduation
of her younger sister, Verily Mendoza , an accounting major who recently
accepted a position with Price Water House-Coopers in Washington, DC.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, a national magazine devoted to minority
issues in academe, recently released its annual “Top 100 Undergraduate Degree
Producers” and “Top 100 Graduate Degree Producers” rankings. Using graduation
data reported by 4000 two- and four-year institutions to the U.S. Department of
Education’s National Center for Education Statistics for the 2005-06 academic year, the
magazine ranked universities not only on how many degrees were granted overall
to minority students, but also gave separate rankings by race, specifically African
American, Asian American, Hispanic and Native American, for specific fields of study.
• Benedict ranked 13th for granting undergraduate degrees in Physical Sciences to
African Americans.
• The College ranked 41st for granting undergraduate degrees in Computer and
Information Sciences to African Americans.
• Benedict College ranked 42nd for granting undergraduate degrees in Biology-
Biomedical Sciences to African Americans.
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