Sam Houston State University’s student diversity experienced changes since the spring semester in the percentages of students enrolled in each of the four colleges as well as the population by ethnicity and gender.Junior Rebecca Elliott said that she is pleased with the campus diversity.”I think that it’s growing since my freshman year,” said Elliott. “I think that allows for a better experience.”In terms of gender, 59 percent of the campus is female and 41 percent male. Last semester, SHSU had a population of 58 percent female and 42 percent male.Sophomore Jennifer Royer said the high number of females at SHSU indicates how much women have become more educated in the past few decades.”It shows that woman have progressed,” said Royer. “If you went back to this day 20 years ago, most women didn’t go to college.” Caucasian students of European descent comprise 74 percent of the student population, with minorities comprising 25 percent. The remaining one percent comes from international students enrolled at SHSU. Caucasians lost 1 percent and minorities gained 1 percent since spring, while international students remained the same.Sophomore Jason Plotkin, president of the Jewish student organization Hillel, said that being a minority could be difficult in any situation.”I think a lot of people don’t realize how hard it is to be a minority, of any kind,” said Plotkin. “There’s other minorities you don’t see.”Plotkin also said the colleges on campus provide opportunities for minorities to join various organizations.”There’s many organizations that stem from the programs offered within the college geared towards different organizations,” said Plotkin.Elliott also said the university provides services for different groups.”We have a whole bunch of multicultural and international student services,” said Elliott.Elliott also mentioned that compared to the general population, SHSU is fairly diverse, and ceremonies like International Coffee Night allows students from different groups to discuss issues concerning them.Classification on campus this semester is divided into 23 percent freshman, 20 percent sophomore, 20 percent junior, 23 percent senior, 2 percent post bachelor degree, 11 percent graduate and 1 percent doctoral. Troy Courville of the Office of Institutional Research said the difference between a post-bachelor degree and a graduate student is post-bachelor students have not been accepted into either a master or doctoral plan.”A person who is here taking classes, like for certification classes, but hasn’t been accepted into a graduate school,” said Courville.The current age difference on campus ranges from 11 percent aged 18 or lower; 38 percent, 19- to 21-years old; 24 percent, 22-to 24-years old; 13 percent, 25-to 30-years old; 7 percent, 31- to 40-years old; 5 percent, 41- to 50-years old and 2 percent, 51 or older.Population by college is 33.8 percent College of Arts and Sciences, 33.8 percent College of Education and Applied Sciences, 20.9 percent College of Business and 11.5 percent College of Criminal Justice. During the spring semester, the numbers were 36 percent, 34 percent, 21 percent and 9 percent respectively.Courville said the information used to determine campus diversity is compiled from different sources. He said the data is taken from individual departments, such as the admissions departments, along with application information from students and placed into a “frozen file.”