http://fsunativealumni.org/2007/12/30/question-does-fsu-actively-recruit-native-students/ Reconnect. Give Back. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:32:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://fsunativealumni.org/2007/12/30/question-does-fsu-actively-recruit-native-students/#comment-5 ldlane Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:33:46 +0000 http://fsunativealumni.org/2007/12/30/question-does-fsu-actively-recruit-native-students/#comment-5 Yeah, that sounds par for the course. Yeah, that sounds par for the course.

]]> http://fsunativealumni.org/2007/12/30/question-does-fsu-actively-recruit-native-students/#comment-3 jluna Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:55:12 +0000 http://fsunativealumni.org/2007/12/30/question-does-fsu-actively-recruit-native-students/#comment-3 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 my reply is a bit out of date.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. 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 my reply is a bit out of date.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.

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