{"id":12991,"date":"2011-03-31T00:31:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T00:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12991"},"modified":"2011-03-31T00:31:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T00:31:23","slug":"gw-gives-community-option-to-identify-as-multiracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12991","title":{"rendered":"GW gives community option to identify as multiracial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.gwhatchet.com\/media\/storage\/paper332\/news\/2011\/03\/28\/News\/Gw.Gives.Community.Option.To.Identify.As.MultiRacial-3988340.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">GW gives community option to identify as multiracial<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The GW Hatchet<br \/>\nGeorge Washington University, Washington D.C.<br \/>\n2011-03-28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pavan Jagannathan<\/strong>, Hatchet Reporter<\/p>\n<p>The University added a new category for multiracial students, faculty and staff to classify themselves as &#8220;two or more races&#8221; in University institutional data, moving into compliance with a new federal regulation.<\/p>\n<p>University Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Steven Lerman said the U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s new aggregate categories for reporting racial and ethnic data of students and staff went into effect for the 2010-2011 school year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Lerman said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;two or more races&#8221; in University institutional data, moving into compliance with a new federal regulation. University Provost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,125,6,26,20],"tags":[5839,5838,5837],"class_list":["post-12991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-george-washington-university","tag-pavan-jagannathan","tag-the-gw-hatchet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}