The University has a minority enrollment rate of 35 percent. Most of these scholarships go to support Native Americans, who comprise 25 percent of the minority enrollment. A bill in the General Assembly last year that would have changed the selection criteria for students receiving race-based aid to include students who are financially needy, the first in their generation to attend college, or students who are from a particular geographic location, was voted down. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which governs North Carolina, ruled in the 1995 case Podberesky v. University of Maryland at College Park that scholarship programs restricted to students based on their race are unconstitutional. Race-based scholarships ignore those students of other races who are also in genuine need.
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