Question: Does FSU actively recruit Native students?
Lance posed this question:
What “actively” is the University doing to recruit native students. I know when the mascot thing was going on they said something about “outreach programs” and things of that nature. Has anyone addressed that issue from the Admin?
Does anyone know?
December 31st, 2007 at 12:55
so. my reply is a bit out of date. back between 2000-2005, there was no recruiting. when i left in 2005 out of approx. 45,000 fsu students only 114 self identified as native and of those if i remember correctly less than 6 were seminole. half and half oklahoma and florida.
i believe the university still claims to do outreach but who knows how real that is. i´m sure since the mascot issue heated up in summer of 2005, right after i left, that the florida seminole tribe inc. and the university may have something established now but i doubt its sincerity.
in terms of the mascot and calling our racism in the university it would sort of be counter effective to their olde skool arguments of “its all ok”. they don´t want many native folks cause well…. the something may just happen on that campus. just some thoughs a 1am from abya yala. take care.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:33
Yeah, that sounds par for the course.