GW gives community option to identify as multiracialPosted in Articles, Campus Life, Identity Development/Psychology, New Media, Politics/Public Policy, United States on 2011-03-31 00:31Z by Steven |
GW gives community option to identify as multiracial
The GW Hatchet
George Washington University, Washington D.C.
2011-03-28
Pavan Jagannathan, Hatchet Reporter
The University added a new category for multiracial students, faculty and staff to classify themselves as “two or more races” in University institutional data, moving into compliance with a new federal regulation.
University Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Steven Lerman said the U.S. Department of Education’s new aggregate categories for reporting racial and ethnic data of students and staff went into effect for the 2010-2011 school year.
“GW is complying with a federal mandate to collect race and ethnicity data in a specific way to allow for multiple race codes per person,” Lerman said…