Clarity on how the WCP has become the way it is and hierarchy, technical questions, alternative plan: Bilal Ibn Rabah scholarship
William C Parker:
Main Concerns: Eligibility and Requirements
Woodford R. Porter Scholarship Program. The Porter Scholars Program is specifically for Black/African American students from certain counties within the Commonwealth.
Why didn’t UK maintain this same model?
With it’s already turbulent past and current issues with recruiting and retaining Black students, we think it’s necessary that the University revise the William C. Parker Diversity Scholarship Program.
-Tsage put something in here to emphasize the importance of communication from WCP regarding people who have applied.
Please provide a detailed breakdown of how William C Parker and Lyman T Johnson are funded
Where is the money coming from and how much per institution (institutional donor, institutional fundraising, state grants, federal grants, etc)
Please provide a detailed breakdown of students who are receiving these scholarships including ethnicity, race, gender, geography, other factors?
The number of students receiving institutional aid specifically? How much aid goes to each category?
Pg 23, H14
How much of a difference do subsidized loans make to a college student’s long term financial success?
Pg 23, H12
Why is the United Negro College Fund unavailable?
Pg 23, H13
Is the reason for providing non-need-based scholarships/grant to degree-seeking non-resident aliens due to their resident status?
Pg 23, H6
Students were very interested to know: Average debt for a 4-year student
Pg 22, H5 information
A break down of loans borrowed by ethnicity, gender, etc?
Pg 22, H5
In reference to: “Number of students who had no financial need and who were awarded institutional non-need-based scholarships.” How much aid was given and how has this trend changed over time?
Pg 20, H2A
Student were very interested to know: 556/2941 students who were in financial need saw that need fully met. What is fully met and who determines this?
Page 20, H2
Block H1: Scholarships and grants monetary information broken down by ethnicity and gender
Page 19, Black H1
Transfer Admissions
Pg 13
Early Action: Who utilizes this tool and what are the cross-references to financial aid, scholarship, and graduation rates?
Pg 12, C22
Are these statistics available by ethnicity?
Pg 5, C1
Christine Harper:
Historical process:
Parker was a place where students could go out of need
Data analysis:
Distributing parker based on outcomes
What are the reforms?
Desegregation funds: how do you mean?
Nation criteria change
Freshmen and re-admitted students and transfer students
Desegregation funds: funds for recruitment and scholarshipping, the funds are not earmarked in that way
Only $150k in total
$335 million in 2007, 257 million now: state funding
Parker has 2.5 to 12 million
The rest of the funds come from tuition income and state appropriations
All financial, faculty, etc…
How are state funds now earmarked?
Kentucky has a lump-sum appropriation
Mandated programs: an amount of money that must be directed towards certain program
As land-grant we must match federal funds
No funds currently earmarked for student financial aid
The university is a quasi-state agency
Model procurement laws
Anything over $10k, we must submit a proposal
“Unfunded mandates”
The state mandates that scholarships are provided for certain students
The state requires that, but they give no money specific to that outside of the lump sum.
After all requirements are met, the university then gets to decide how we spend that money
The Board of Trustees Approves the Budget
The minority state educators, CAP grants, etc.
Through the department of education
The university and specific departments
Lyman T Johnson
Not awarded for Black students
Comes out of graduate schools
Identify someone based on criteria, interviews, etc.
Advisory board to distribute more funds
A lot of departments and colleges money do come from donors
NOT a restricted fund. Funded from institutional money.
Institutional, federal, state aid… then we can look at excess
Colleges and donors have a lot of constraints
Lets talk about donors:
Affirmative Action Case Law also plays a part
Who makes the decisions for William C Parker requirements?
Retention benefits and outcomes for students
CARES provides support for WCP, but they do not regulate WCP
Ex: CARES forgetting to turn in a sign-in sheet means that student loses their scholarship
Asia Payne: She works with Sandy, Cristal, Nimey, and Christine Harper
She has a “team”
William C Parker 5th Year Scholarship
Transparency
Lyman T Johnson:
Reported through financial aid
Who is over it: no answer
What does UK deem to be diversity?
Against the University of Michigan: Gritt V Michigan 2003 and Bollinger v Michigan
UT v Abigail Fisher 2014
You cannot make a decision solely based on race
What is a critical mass for race/ ethnicity when determining how to distribute funds?
You have to be able to demonstrate that you have done everything you can to help students
It can not be at the cost or expense of another population
Cases leaned on the fact
They got very fact on overturning affirmative action
Provide for our students but also respecting case law ***
Universities may have affiliated foundations which can create scholarships through private money.
We cannot give the foundations university dollars
Started through fundraising
Make the BSAC a foundation to distribute the Bilal scholarship?
You can publicize it through UK but it’s still held outside the university
How do give this knowledge to other students?
Working on internal processes: Making sure that the structure of how aid is distributed is in the best possible format
Diversity Recruiter: Buzz, Shaquinta Neal (oversees all territories), and will be looking for a Latinx recruiter soon
Tasks:
Put together a survey for William C Parker concerns
Social Work ASAP
Co-chairs meeting by next friday
Next Week’s Meeting:
Dr. Feist Price
Diversity and Inclusion Officers