The Pennsylvania State University - Administrative Information Services, a unit of Information Technology Services

Student DB--New Student Ethnicity Tables

Posted: Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Attention Data Warehouse Users--Student Data:

In accordance with IPEDS regulations, which now allow a student to choose more than one race, the Data Warehouse now has two new tables containing student ethnicity and race information. The tables reside in the STUDENT database; they are:  student_ethnicity_overview and student_ethnicity_indcs.  

Documentation for the tables can be found on the Student Database Documentation page. In an effort to uphold sensitivity and accurately explain the purpose of this data, the table and field definitions may be refined over the next couple of months. Please check the documentation page frequently to remain up-to-date with the descriptions of the ethnicity and race data.

To request access to this data, please follow the instructions on the Accessing Student Ethnicity Data page. The point of contact for this data is Shelly Aina in the Educational Equity Office; please send any questions or comments regarding this data to her at skp1@psu.edu.  

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