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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
Yes. 
Here's one of plenty examples so that you all can get your rocks off. You can look up other PWIs and find a similar thing going on in their official and unofficial documents and publications.
http://www.ou.edu/rise/Publication/R...cationPage.htm
Look under "Portraying Success Among URM Engineering Majors," and find a reference to "predominantly white univerisities," which is the same thing as a predominantly white institution (PWI--refers to colleges and universities)
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That's an grant request hosted on ou.edu's website, written by a professor (and several graduate students) who is attempting to recieve money and will be running a study. Not an official university document.
I'm not denying the term isn't used by people, but not by universities as descriptors for themselves.