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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowIndiana University's efforts to recruit more black students and faculty to its Bloomington campus have fallen well short of the school's goals, but some on campus hope a key hiring in a campus diversity office will help turn the tide.
Graduate student Carl Darnell tells The Herald-Times that IU figures show African-Americans have accounted for an average of 4 percent of students since 1975. That's despite a 2007 goal to double underrepresented minority students by 2013-14.
President Michael McRobbie says minority numbers on IU's other campuses have improved but acknowledges it has been harder to recruit minority students to the Bloomington campus.
University officials have hired a new associate vice president for the office of Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs to help guide minority leadership programs.
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