Today at UA

• UA is the No. 2 public flagship university in the nation in the enrollment of African-American students, with African-Americans representing more than 12 percent of the student body in Fall Semester 2011.

• UA ranks No. 3 among 50 flagship institutions for the percentage of total degrees conferred to African-American students.

• Within the past two decades, UA has increased the number of African-American undergraduates enrolled by almost 106 percent and the number of African-American graduate and advanced professional students by 192 percent.

• Within the past two decades, degrees awarded to African-American undergraduates have increased by 108 percent while degrees awarded to African-American graduate and advanced professional students have risen 380 percent.

• Degrees awarded to African-American undergraduates have increased by 71 percent, while degrees awarded to African-American graduate and advanced professional students have risen 249 percent.

• Minority and international faculty comprise more than 17 percent of UA’s full-time faculty.

• The University ranks No. 3 among flagship universities in the percentage of full-time African-American faculty and No. 2 for full-time African-American senior-level administrators, with 5.4 percent and 11 percent, respectively.

• In the past 20 years, UA has increased African-American faculty by 192 percent.

• In addition to an African-American vice president for community affairs, six African-American faculty members serve as assistant or associate deans of their respective colleges.