School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
J Dent Educ. 2011 Dec;75(12):1542-7.
The 2000 U.S. census reported that the population is 12.3 percent African American and 12.5 percent Hispanic; however, less than 4 percent of dentists are African American and 2 percent are Hispanic. To address this disparity, increasing the diversity of dental students is mandatory. The purpose of this article is to describe how the University of Louisville School of Dentistry (ULSD) has approached enrolling and retaining underrepresented minority students. ULSD has increased its pool of underrepresented minority applicants through three major methods: partnerships and collaborations, mentoring, and restructuring administration. Data from ULSD's admissions, institutional research, and planning along with annual enrollment surveys from the American Dental Education Association were used to determine the percentage of African American and Hispanic students entering (1993-2006) and graduating (1997-2010). From 1993 to 2010, African American enrollment increased from 3 to 9.6 percent of the entering class, and the graduation rate of African American students increased from 1.7 to 8.5 percent. Hispanic student enrollment also increased (1.6 percent in 1993 to 2.4 percent in 2006), but Hispanic student graduation rates decreased (3.5 percent in 1996 to 0 percent in 2010).
2000 年美国人口普查报告显示，人口中 12.3%为非裔美国人，12.5%为西班牙裔；然而，牙医中非裔美国人不到 4%，西班牙裔不到 2%。为了解决这种差异，增加牙科学员的多样性是必要的。本文旨在描述路易斯维尔大学牙科学院（ULSD）如何招收和留住代表性不足的少数族裔学生。ULSD 通过三种主要方法增加了代表性不足的少数族裔申请人的数量：合作与协作、指导和重组管理。ULSD 的招生、机构研究和规划数据以及来自美国牙科学教育协会的年度入学调查，用于确定非裔美国人和西班牙裔学生入学（1993-2006 年）和毕业（1997-2010 年）的百分比。从 1993 年到 2010 年，非裔美国人的入学率从入学班级的 3%增加到 9.6%，非裔美国学生的毕业率从 1.7%增加到 8.5%。西班牙裔学生的入学率也有所增加（1993 年为 1.6%，2006 年为 2.4%），但西班牙裔学生的毕业率有所下降（1996 年为 3.5%，2010 年为 0%）。
