Documentation for Quantitative Waiver

The Office of General Counsel utilizes between $2,000 and $4,000 each year on equal opportunity training and discrimination awareness. Another $3,000 to $4,000 is utilized for faculty/staff training from the Title III budget. For the past two years, Kentucky State University has participated in a faculty recruiting conference called the Compact for Faculty Diversity. The Compact is sponsored by the Southern Region Education Board (SREB). SREB invites either state higher education governing bodies (such as CPE) or individual universities to participate. Kentucky has been fortunate that SREB has extended the invitation to participate in the Compact to CPE, which then allows all of the public universities in that state to attend this outstanding event. The focus of the Compact is to bring together the largest group of minority master's and doctoral students in the country. The attending universities are allowed to participate in a career fair for future faculty that runs the duration of the conference. KSU was fortunate in the first year to recruit a Ph.D. in Nursing. The University did not have such success in this second year, since many of the participants were not ready to graduate. The Land Grant Program covered the cost of one administrator to attend the 2007 conference and the 2008 conference, which was approximately $1,800 per year. Also in 2008, the Provost covered the cost of participation of the three Deans, which would have been the same approximate amount per person. Additionally, a member of the Provost's office is assigned to each faculty search committee to ensure diversity in the pool of candidates.

Table 1 below delineates the total enrollment of Kentucky State University for the fall 2006-Fall 2008 period. Data indicate that the three-year average for the institution's cohort of African American students is approximately 61%, while the three-year average for the institution's cohort of all non-white students is approximately 70%. Kentucky residents represent approximately 63% of this three-year average.

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