Monday, September 17, 2007
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Minnesota colleges are working hard to recruit immigrants and minorities in anticipation of the upcoming decline in the college-age population.
Hennepin Technical College has information in seven foreign languages on its Web site. St. Cloud State University is running full-page ads in Spanish, Somali and Hmong newspapers in the Twin Cities. And Normandale Community College has hired people who speak Spanish, Somali and Russian.
The push comes as the number of Minnesota high school graduates is expected to drop by about 10% over the next several years, with most of the decline among the white population. Officials at St. Cloud State says Minnesota is expected to see huge growth in the populations Latino, Asian and African/African-American at the same time.
Source: AP, Sept 17, 2007