STANDARD 3 STANDARD 3 DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVENESS HIGHLIGHTS • The percentage of minority undergraduates in the School has increased since the Above: Members of the J-school Ambassadors program meet with last accreditation team visit. CNN’s Brooke Baldwin (JOMC ‘01) at • The percentages of female and minority faculty members in the School have also a reception following a Women in Media Leadership Series event. increased since the last accreditation team visit. • The School has obtained a multi-year financial commitment to run its Chuck Stone program, which introduces minority high school students to media careers. • The School is home to the Durham VOICE, a digital and print news publication that reports on Durham’s inner-city community, and The Irina Project, a web-based resource for journalists covering sex-trafficking. STANDARD 3: Diversity and Inclusiveness Introduction (three African-Americans and three Asians.) The School has a strong history of providing a Minority faculty members. For many years the diverse and inclusive education for its undergraduate and School has attempted to recruit, retain and nurture minority graduate students through its curriculum and through faculty members. Most of the efforts have been quite numerous programs and activities. These programs successful, and the minority faculty members have helped and activities have also provided excellent educational pave the way for the creation of courses and many activities experiences regarding diversity for many professionals in in diversity. Although we lost three minority faculty members mass communication throughout the years, and to the public in June 2014 (two African-Americans retired, and one Asian as well through speeches and other appearances by top left for a higher position at the University of Florida), we minority journalists and big names in an array of fields. hired two new minority faculty members as of July 1, 2014. Of the current total of 47 full-time faculty members, 11 are As to minority students, for many years we have minorities. That comes to 23.4 percent, which is up from the attempted to recruit and retain a diverse student body total of 19 percent in the last accreditation. through School-wide efforts and through work by individual faculty members. A key program is the N. C. Scholastic Female faculty members. Of the 47 full-time faculty Media Association (NCSMA), which has existed for more members, 21 are female, or 44.7 percent, which is up from the than 50 years and has involved thousands of high school figure of 40 percent in the last accreditation. students from North Carolina and beyond. In summary, the School has experienced the Undergraduate minority students. Figures from following increases since the last accreditation visit in 2009: the university registrar’s office for spring 2014 show that the School had a lower percentage of Asian undergraduates Percentage Group than the university did. Most Asian students who come to change UNC-CH major in the sciences or in health. The percentages Minority undergraduate students +37.5% for black-African-American and Latino undergraduates for the same semester were slightly lower than the university’s Minority residential graduate students +93.6% percentages. But when the overall number of minority Minority full-time faculty members +23.1% students in the School is totaled, it comes to 172 out of the Female full-time faculty members +11.5% 781 undergraduate students enrolled in spring 2014. That amounts to 22 percent, which is up considerably from the 16 percent of minority students at the time of the last Throughout the years, the School has held scores accreditation in 2009. of one-time programs on diversity and has created several important ongoing activities. They are described below. It Graduate minority students. At the graduate level, should be noted that virtually all faculty members, black we had 33 students in the residential master’s program in and white, Latino and Asian, have worked willingly in the spring 2014. None of the students were African-American in programs. A number of staff members have as well. that semester, but 8 of the 33 students were minorities. That comes to 24.2 percent, which is up significantly from the 12.5 percent of graduate students at the last accreditation. The percentage of minority students in the online master’s program (the MATC) in spring 2014 was slightly higher: 26.2 percent. In the Ph.D. program, which is not up for review, the proportion of minority students was even higher. Six of the 25 students enrolled in the Ph.D. program in spring 2014 were minorities, for 24 percent. Incidentally, the incoming Ph.D. class of 10 students in fall 2014 is 60 percent minority STANDARD 3: DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVENESS 3-1 1. Complete and attach the following Table 5 tables: Table 5, “Area Population;” Tables Based on the most recent Census figures, what percentages do the 6 and 6a, “Student Populations;” Table 7, following groups represent of the population of the unit’s geographic “Faculty Populations;” Table 8, “Full-time service area as described above? Faculty Recruitment;” Table 9, “Part-time/ % of N.C. % of U.S. Group Adjunct Faculty Recruitment” population population Black – African-American 22.0% 13.1% Area Population Service Area: Describe here the unit’s geographic service area as far as student enrollment is concerned White 64.7% 63.0% (region, states, state, counties, etc.) American Indian – Alaskan native 1.5% 1.2% Asian 2.5% 5.1% North Carolina state law requires that 82 percent of each entering first-year class at UNC-CH be residents of Hispanic – Latino (any race) 8.7% 16.9% North Carolina. This is part of the UNC System’s mission of Native Hawaiian – other Pacific 0.1% 0.2% serving the state and its peoples. Not incidentally, this means Islander that out-of-state students who do get admitted as first- Two or more races 2.0% 2.4% year students have extraordinarily high qualifications. The demand to enter our university from around the country and Other races N/A N/A world, even at the undergraduate level, is strong. Each year thousands of out-of-state applicants are turned down at the Total 101.5% 101.9% first-year level. Female 51.3% 50.8% Junior transfers coming into UNC-CH need not meet that 82 percent requirement, so a higher percentage of them come from out of state and from other countries. At the graduate level and especially in Ph.D. programs, the Minority Presence in the School’s Undergraduates. university and our School draw many international students. The percentage of African-American undergraduate We also have more and more international exchange students in the School is lower than the percentage of the students at the undergraduate level in our School. African-American population of North Carolina because the latter figure is African-Americans of all ages and includes So the School’s service area is mainly North people not in college. Another factor in comparing the Carolina at the undergraduate level, but we also have percentages of African-American students in our School students from all across the country and from other with the population of North Carolina should be considered. countries. Our study-abroad relationships with six Our state has a number of historically black colleges and universities mean we have a steady group of international universities (HBCUs) that draw a large number of African- undergraduates arriving most semesters. More information American students. At least six are close by geographically, about the study-abroad program is provided later in this no more than an hour or 90 minutes from Chapel Hill by Standard. car. They are N.C. Central University in Durham, N.C. Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro, The School’s service area for the professional Shaw University and St. Augustine’s in Raleigh, Fayetteville master’s program is mainly the United States as a whole, and State in Fayetteville, and Winston-Salem State in Winston- we have a sprinkling of international students at that level Salem. The South has many other HBCUs as well, of course. as well. 3-2 STANDARD 3: DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVENESS Table 6 Undergraduate Student Populations. Show numbers of male, female, minority, white and international students enrolled in the unit, the percentages they represent of total journalism and mass communications enrollment, and the percentages these racial/ethnic groups represent of the total institutional enrollment. Use figures from the most recent academic year for which complete data are available. The data come from the UNC-CH registrar data warehouse for spring 2014. % of Total in % of Total in Group Male Female Unit Institution Asian 5 29 4.4% 10.1% Black – African-American 8 42 6.4% 8.5% White 148 451 76.7% 65.7% Hispanic – Latino 14 42 7.2% 7.4% Multiple 3 28 4.0% 5.9% Other 1 0 0.1% 0.6% Not specified – Chose 2 8 1.3% 1.9% not to respond Totals 181 600 100.1% 100.1% Please note: The total number of undergraduate majors (juniors and seniors) was 781 in spring 2014. The total number of minorities self-identified in the above table comes to 172, or 22 percent of the School’s undergraduates. STANDARD 3: DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVENESS 3-3 Table 6a Graduate Student Populations The data come from the UNC-CH registrar data warehouse for spring 2014. Residential M.A. Online MATC Ph.D. Totals % of Total Group at % in % in % in % in UNC-CH Male program Male program Male program Male program Female Female Female Female Asian 0 0 0.0% 0 1 2.4% 0 1 4.0% 0 2 2.0% 11.8% Black - African- 0 0 0.0% 1 1 4.8% 0 3 12.0% 1 4 5.0% 7.2% American White 6 18 72.7% 7 22 69.0% 6 11 68.0% 19 51 70.0% 61.0% Hispanic - 0 3 9.1% 0 0 0.0% 1 0 4.0% 1 3 4.0% 5.7% Latino Multiple 2 2 12.1% 6 2 19.0% 0 1 4.0% 8 5 13.0% 8.2% Other 1 0 3.0% 0 0 0.0% 0 0 0.0% 1 0 1.0% 1.1% Not specified - Chose not to 0 1 3.0% 0 2 4.8% 1 1 8.0% 1 4 5.0% 4.9% respond Totals 9 24 99.9% 14 28 100.0% 8 17 100.0% 31 69 100.0% 99.9% Please note: The total number of residential M.A.