STUDENT PROFILE

# of degree-seeking undergraduates	2,456
% male/ female	0/100
% African American	4
% American Indian or Alaska Native	<1
% Asian or Pacific Islander	16
% Hispanic	9
% White	66
% International	7
%Pell grant recipients	53

First-generation and minority alumni Edwidge Danticat, HEOP alumna, winner of Pushcart Author for “Breathe, Eyes, Memory,” 2009 MacArthur Fellows Genius Grant winner; Jhumpa Lahiri, 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “Interpreter of Maladies;” Zora Neale Hurston, American folklorist, anthropologist, author of the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God;” Sheila Abdus-Salaam, New York Supreme Court Justice; Margaret Mead, anthropologist