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The University of Wisconsin at Madison recently produced a recruitment brochure that contained a doctored photo. In an effort to demonstrate a racially diverse campus, designers digitally inserted the face of a black student into a photo of a large group of white students at a home football game. Wisconsin officials noted that the original photo did not accurately reflect the school’s minority population, which is approximately 9 percent of the undergraduate student body. University officials are now considering reprinting covers for some of the 110,000 brochures, which had been completely revamped for the first time in several years. Between 50,000 and 55,000 of the booklets have already been mailed to high schools and to individual students who are considering applying to the university.
Promoting diversity in the newsroom
Hampton University has been awarded a $4 million grant by the Scripps-Howard Foundation to construct a journalism building on its campus. The foundation also announced a five-year, $300,000 grant to the National Association of Black Journalists to develop journalism programs at Hampton University. The foundation had previously donated $2.3 million to the school to establish the Scripps-Howard program in journalism. The foundation’s parent company, E.W. Scripps Co., is a media company whose holdings include 20 daily newspapers, 10 TV stations and three cable networks. The gift to the historically black college is intended to promote diversity in America’s newsrooms.
--Matthew Winston
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