Students
In the fall 2009 semester, UACCM served 2,423 total credit students, marking a 24 percent increase over fall 2008 numbers. Of those students, 76 percent were considered full-time (enrolling in 12 or more credit hours per semester), and 24 percent were considered part-time. The student body was made of 38 percent male and 62 percent female. The average student age in the fall 2009 semester was 25.
Since UACCM's last year as a vocational technical school in 1990, overall enrollment has grown nearly 670 percent, with the student population doubling in size since merging with the University of Arkansas System in 2001.
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“I know that I will always be expected to have extra insight into black texts—especially texts by black women. A working-class Jewish woman from Brooklyn could become an expert on Shakespeare or Baudelaire, my students seemed to believe, if she mastered the language, the texts, and the critical literature. But they would not grant that a middle-class white man could ever be a trusted authority on Toni Morrison.”
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