Tag: PWI
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The Grand Opening of a New Space for SMP! An Integral Part of the “Diversity” on Campus, But Why Did It Take So Long?
By Valerie Pereyra New Paltz, N.Y.– At the beginning of the 2019 school year, New Paltz made history by having the highest percentage of students of color it’s ever had for its incoming freshman class at 48 percent, a 5 percent increase from last year’s first-year enrollment rate, according to the New Paltz Institutional Research.…
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The Other 6 Percent: Black Student Life at SUNY New Paltz
One day Delani Morgan, a black male, was dining with his friends at Siena college. Morgan was the only black person in a group of whites. Then an acquaintance joined in with the group to converse. He asked Morgan and his friends if he could sit. “Sure,” Morgan said. They were having a conversation about music,…