additional 14,541 degrees, bringing the total for the On the Lexington campus, the number of black
‘ decade to almost 53,000. students rose from 127 to 633, a gain of almost 400
y To cope with this steady enrollment growth, the per cent. Black enrollment in the community colleges
f University made substantial additions to its teaching grew by 45 per cent to a total of 1,729, meaning that
l faculty, though not enough to maintain the student- blacks now account for 11 per cent of the community
teacher ratio with which the decade began. college system’s enrollment.
University-wide, the faculty grew in number from Much of the success that has been realized in
about 1,500 to approximately 2,100, a gain of roughly recruitment and retention of minority students and
40 per cent. faculty stems from the University’s action, during the
The number of female faculty members rose during decade, in creating a vice-presidency for minority
the decade from 16 per cent of the total to 26 per affairs. This officer, Dr. John T. Smith, directs our
cent, and the number of black faculty grew from less increasingly effective programs in affirmative action,
than one-half of one per cent to a figure approaching minority student affairs, and employee counseling.
two per cent. During the Seventies, there also occurred marked
growth in enrollments of graduate and professional
  students. Graduate enrollment grew by 74 per cent,
.i.. he make-up of the student body, too, from 2,096 to 3,643, while the professional schools
underwent significant change during the period. saw their aggregate enrollments increase by 31 per
Females, who accounted for 40 per cent of the cent, from 921 to 1,204. The University also has
Lexington enrollment in 1969, comprised over 45 per noted a significant increase in older and part-time
cent of the total there a decade later. ln the students.
community colleges, meanwhile, female enrollment To accommodate such growth in its student body
grew from 44 per cent of the total in 1969 to 60 per and faculty, the University made more than a dozen
cent in 1979. major additions to its Lexington-campus physical
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