The University’s Hispanic and Latin student enrollment is at a standstill, and the number of Hispanic entering freshmen increased by only one from last fall for a total of 174. Total Hispanic undergraduate enrollment is up 6.1 percent from fall 2007 — an increase of 0.1 percent of the total undergraduate population — and the University has initiated a recruiting plan to boost those numbers.According to a 2006 report by the U.S. Census Bureau, about 43 million (14 percent) of U.S. residents are Hispanic — a population that has replaced African Americans as the largest minority group in the U.S.With increasing numbers of Hispanic high school graduates and U.S. residents, the pool of Hispanic students from which the University can recruit is growing.Compared with universities in states with naturally large Hispanic populations, LSU is far behind. Hispanic students accounted for 17.8 percent of the University of Texas’ undergraduate students last fall, and 13.5 percent of the University of Florida’s 2007 undergraduate population.—-Contact Sarah Lawson at [email protected]