The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s engineering and applied sciences program have a total of three black employees.
Three, out of a total of 101. That is an amazingly low 2.97%.
Those numbers, by the way, come from UWM’s own affirmative action report.
As UWM seeks to flee the confines of the city for the comforts of spacious new digs on the County Grounds in western Wauwatosa, it is worth asking whether moving away from minority populations will help its minority recruiting efforts, or whether perhaps those efforts would be enhanced more if UWM were to locate its school downtown or elsewhere in the city.
There are no black males — a big 0 — on staff inUWM’s engineering and applied science programs, according to the report, which is dated Oct. 31. There are no black professors or associate professors there, either.