Ten years ago, Edgewood College officials struggled to bring minorities to the small liberal arts college. Only one student showed up for the Madison school’s first minority recruitment day in 2000. The next fall, only 11 students of color were part of the roughly 300-student freshman class. But over the past decade that has changed. In the fall, 55 minorities were part of Edgewood College’s freshman class, almost 20 percent of the total.
….Dora E. Zuniga, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County and mom to Edgewood freshman Ariana Silva, said she knows several minority students who enrolled at Edgewood because they didn?t get into UW-Madison, and flourished there. “You have the best of both worlds,” she said. “The kids who end up at Edgewood, because the place down the road doesn?t take them, actually it?s a great service to them because they?re not going to get lost.”