University of Wyoming President Laurie Nichols has been traveling to local Native American reservations in an effort to improve recruitment of these students.
The initiative started in her previous position as provost at South Dakota State University. Wyoming’s Native American population is 2.5 percent, while the university’s is less than 1 percent.
Nichols has met with both the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone business councils. Their tribal populations are growing, which means more prospective students in the coming years.
“You really need to look at the diversity within the state, and, to the extent it can, the university should be a mirror image of that,” she said, according to published reports.
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