Thursday, July 3, 2008

UCEAP Data Collection Efforts on Race and Ethnicity in Education Abroad

During my recent research efforts I came across the statistics website
of the University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP)
<
http://eap.ucop.edu/staff/statistics/>. I find their statistics
document entitled "UCEAP 5 Year Participation by ethnic Identity" to be
especially interesting as they break down the ethnicity of traditionally underrepresented groups beyond the demographic data we see reported in Open Doors, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and other educational data sets. UCEAP provides both participation numbers and rates for the following ethnic groups:

African-American/Black
American Indian
Chicano/Mexican-American
Chinese/Chinese-American
East Indian/Pakistani
Filipino/Pilipino
Japanese/Japanese-American
Korean/Korean-American
Latin/Other Spanish American
Other Asian/Oriental
Other/Non-White
Pacific Islander/Polynesian
Vietnamese/Vietnamese-American
White/Caucasian
Decline to State

Having such rich data provides UCEAP with an excellent understanding of
their study abroad student profile and serves as an excellent model of
good practice for the field of education abroad.

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