HPER aims to increase enrollment

Eight members of the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation Advanced Leadership Council are in Bloomington until Saturday planning strategies to recruit more African-American graduate students for HPER, according to a press release.\nThe group of prominent alumni includes former IU basketball player Walt Bellamy.\n"The purpose of this event is to lay the groundwork for the formation of an Advanced Leadership Institute that will focus on the recruitment of minority graduate students at HPER from historically black colleges throughout the South," said David Gallahue, associate dean for academic affairs and research at HPER.\nGallahue said the school was a national leader in attracting minority students prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. HPER Dean Tony Mobley said many of those students were from black colleges in the South and were denied a graduate education at other institutions.\n"Many of these individuals have become professors, department chairs and deans at these colleges and are now looking forward to helping us educate the leaders of tomorrow," Mobley said.\nBellamy operates a consulting business in Atlanta and will be joined by Bill Gunn of Benedict College; Mildred Ball, retired from the Indiana High School Athletic Association; Doris Screws of Delaware State University; June Robinson of Hampton University; Ken Mosely of South Carolina State University; Andrew Kanu of Virginia State University; and Ken Gibson, a school administrator in Lexington, Ky.\nThose at the meetings will learn about HPER programs, discuss issues in academic leadership and develop plans for a $1 million endowment for future support of the program, the release said.