Reporting with the New RaceEthnicity Categories Datamasters Brown

Reporting with the New Race/Ethnicity Categories Datamasters’ Brown Bag 9/29/09

Copies of these powerpoints and the handouts are available at dmi. illinois. edu/banneraids

Topics • Review new r/e groups • List Reporting options • Crosswalk old new • Other considerations • Timing

Internationals The race/ethnicity groups are intended for US citizens and permanent residents only. In general, never include international students, faculty, or staff in race/ethnicity breakouts.

Internationals … unless the job requires it!!

Two Ethnicity Groups • Hispanic/Latino • Non-Hispanic/Latino

Five Racial Groups v. American Indian or Alaskan Native (includes S. & Central American tribes) v. Black or African American v. White v. Asian v. Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

Reporting Options 1. IPEDS (Federal) 2. Count in each group checked 3. IPEDS Plus 2 4. IPEDS Plus 1

1. Federal (IPEDS) R/E Categories • International • Hispanic • Non-Hispanic single race by race (5) • Non-Hispanic multi-race (1) • Non-Hispanic unknown race (1) Nine total categories

2. Count in Each Group Checked • Useful if you need to report # who self- identify as a particular r/e • Example: If a person selected Hispanic and Asian, count him/her in both groups • 8 groups, counting unknown Totals will contain duplicates

3. IPEDS Plus 2 • 9 IPEDS categories • Two additional columns for anyone who checked : • Black/African American • Native American/Alaskan Native • Confusing to the reader

4. IPEDS Plus 1 9 IPEDS categories plus one additional column labeled “Underrepresented Minority” for anyone who checked any group considered underrepresented: • Hispanic/Latino • Black/African American • Native American/Alaskan Native • Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander ?

6. Other? Suggestions from the floor ?

Crosswalking For longitudinal studies r/e will not be consistently collected • • Will need to crosswalk old categories to new or new to old • Do this any way you want, but please document!

Crosswalk Old to New Hispanic ethnicity, unknown race • Asian/Pacific Islander Asian, not Hispanic • Native American Indian/Alaskan Native, not Hispanic • • White, African American no change

Crosswalk New to Old • Hispanic ethnicity Hispanic race • Asian or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, not Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander • American Indian/Alaskan Native, not Hispanic Native American

Crosswalk New to Old • Multiple races, not Hispanic choose at random from the races selected, or choose Native American, African American, Asian, White in that order

Other considerations: Local DB Local database structures or flat file extracts will need to be modified. Suggestion: Any table/file with a personrecord and r/e info in one column now ideally will have 6 columns plus the IPEDS group You may also want to keep the old r/e code on the record as well.

Other considerations - Subgroups • Subgroups will be collected for faculty & staff only • All subgroups map up to one of the standard race/ethnicity groups • Databases or flat files: will you store both characters or just one?

Other considerations: what will we count as underrepresented or minority? • Anyone who checked any of the groups historically considered underrepresented • What about Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander?

Other considerations: “Self-identified” label Reports using an expression like “Selfidentified Race/Ethnicity” probably should be changed since faculty/staff who refuse to submit R/E info will have their R/E information entered by them based on visual identification.

Timing Issues • Admission applications starting now • Enrollments as of Summer, 2010 • Faculty/Staff in Fall, 2010

Discussion