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tradition of opening the doors of higher education for students from
every ethnic/racial group, religion, gender,
sexual orientation, physical condition, and age. UIC's tradition of
diversity was recognized in the 1999 issue of US News & World Report's "America's
Best Colleges" in which UIC was named as one of the most racially
diverse colleges in the nation, ranking 6th out of 228 universities.
Additionally in 2000, NASPA, the association of university student
affairs administrators, named UIC as winner of the Celebrating Diversity
Award for the Midwest region.
UIC has achieved student, faculty, and employee diversity. UIC has a higher percentage of Latino and African-American students than any Big 10 university and ranks 44th (of over 2,000 universities) in the number of BA degrees awarded to Latinos and African-Americans. One quarter of UIC undergraduate students identify themselves as Asian-American. At the graduate level, UIC ranks 26th in MA degrees awarded to Latinos and African-Americans. UIC ranks among top medical schools nationally in combined number of African-American and Latino physicians in its graduating class. Since 1989 UIC has doubled the number of African-American, Latino, and Native American tenured and tenure-track faculty, and 14 percent of faculty are Asian American/Pacific Islander. Also, 40% of UIC's employees are African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. In supporting diversity, UIC presents hundreds of events celebrating diversity every year. These include a variety of events related to Black History Month, Women's Heritage Month, Asian American Awareness Month and Native American Heritage Month. UIC has a vast network of programs to support diversity at the university such as the Emerging Scholars Program, African-American Academic Network Center, Latin American Recruitment and Educational Services, and Native American Support Program. These programs provide academic counseling, tutoring, freshmen orientation, supplemental instruction, summer internships, and supplemental workshops. UIC also provides a variety of offices, centers, and committees devoted to supporting its diverse student body and staff. The Asian American Resource and Cultural Center was established in 2004, joining the African-American Cultural Center and the Rafael Cintron-Ortiz Latino Cultural Center. Other support groups range from the Office of Disability Services to the Office of Women's Affairs to a wide range of committees sponsored by the Chancellor.
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