Undergraduate Hispanic American enrollment at Ball State University has increased 61 percent in five years.
According to Ball State's latest annual diversity committee report, which is required by state law, undergraduate Hispanic/Latino enrollment at BSU jumped from 350 in 2008-09 to 562 in 2013-14.
"Some of the increase is reflective of changing demographics, but it also reflects things we are doing to recruit a diverse student population," said Tom Taylor, vice president for enrollment at the university.
Of the 308.7 million people who resided in the United States during the 2010 census, 50.5 million or 16 percent were of Hispanic or Latino origin.
People of Mexican origin comprised the largest Hispanic group, followed by Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican and Guatemalan, according to the Census Bureau.
In Indiana, the Hispanic or Latino population grew from 214,536 or 3.5 percent of the total population to 389,707 or 6 percent of the total population between 2000 and 2010. READ MORE AT THE STAR PRESS
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