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\u201cUnknown\u201d Students on College Campuses: An Exploratory Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The James Irvine Foundation<\/a>
\nDecember 2005
\n20 pages<\/p>\n

Campus Diversity Initiative Evaluation Project Team (Claremont Graduate University and the Association of American Colleges and Universities):<\/p>\n

Daryl G. Smith<\/strong>, Co-principal Investigator
\nJos\u00e9 Moreno<\/strong>, Senior Research Analyst
\nAlma R. Clayton-Pedersen<\/strong>, Co-principal Investigator
\nSharon Parker<\/strong>, Co-principal Investigator
\nDaniel Hiroyuki Teraguchi<\/strong>, Research Associate<\/p>\n

with<\/p>\n

Suzanne Benally<\/strong>, Campus Liaison
\nSusan E. Borrego<\/strong>, Campus Liaison
\nJocelyn Chong<\/strong>, Research Associate
\nMari Luna De La Rosa<\/strong>, Research Associate
\nMildred Garc\u00eda<\/strong>, Campus Liaison
\nJennie Spencer Green<\/strong>, Campus Liaison
\nBelinda Vea<\/strong>, Research Associate<\/p>\n

A research brief from The James Irvine Foundation Campus Diversity Initiative Evaluation Project<\/em><\/p>\n

In response to the increasing number of students who fall into the \u201crace\/ethnicity unknown\u201d category of post-secondary demographic data, this exploratory study devised a method to ascertain the racial\/ethnic backgrounds of these students by comparing existing enrollment data to a second, independent data set. The method was tested at three small private institutions in California<\/a>. Our findings suggest that overall, a sizeable portion of students in the unknown category are white, in addition to multiracial students who may have selected white as one of their categories.<\/strong> These findings\u2014while not necessarily generalizable\u2014alert campus leaders of the need to attend to this growing segment of the student population and to how the United States is diversifying in more complex ways than ever before. The brief concludes with recommendations for future research and for both campus and federal data collection and use.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n