How UWF fared after Florida dropped race-based admissions

  • April 8, 2015
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   education
As discussion swirls around former Florida Gov Jeb Bush as a presumed Republican candidate for president in 2016, the dissection of Bush's public comments is well under way. The Washington Post recently reported:
As he courts Republicans across the country, Jeb Bush boasts that an executive order he signed that ended race-based college admissions in Florida upheld conservative principles while helping minorities. “We ended up having a system where there were more African American and Hispanic kids attending our university system than prior to the system that was discriminatory,” the former governor and likely presidential contender said recently at a conference of conservative activists.
The Post reported that enrollment of black students at Florida's two flagship universities — University of Florida and Florida State University — actually declined after after Bush did away with race-based college admissions in 2000. Read the Post's story here. How did Pensacola's University of West Florida fare in the same time frame? Data from the National Center for Education Statistics, where UWF directed me when I queried them for the data, shows only a marginal change in the percentage of black students enrolled at UWF in the last 19 years. It shows enrollment of black students remained relatively flat from 1994-2000. It remained near the 9-10 percent mark through 2010. For the 2013-2014 school year, black students made up 12 percent of the UWF student body. Enrollment of white students from 1994-2000 declined from 85 percent to 78 percent. From 2001 to 2010, white students made up 78-74 percent of the student body. By the 2013-2014 school year, white students made up 67 percent of the student body.
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