{"id":2160,"date":"2016-07-18T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2016-07-18T10:08:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T15:08:17","slug":"diversity-trends-in-undergraduate-enrollments-and-faculty-at-research-universities-and-colleges-2001-to-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2016\/07\/18\/diversity-trends-in-undergraduate-enrollments-and-faculty-at-research-universities-and-colleges-2001-to-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity trends in undergraduate enrollments and faculty at research universities and colleges: 2001 to 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The following post and data visualization is by guest blogger Lisa Bernardo, highlighting her project for Prof. Harmon\u2019s Economics Independent Study class.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This project aimed to analyze diversity of student enrollment versus faculty members at research universities in the United States.\u00a0 Through our research and analysis, we wanted to determine whether the make up of the student population in terms of race and ethnicity was well represented within that of faculty members.\u00a0 This was done by calculating race and ethnicity shares of undergraduate students and faculty members from the years 2001 through 2014 using data downloaded from the IPEDS Data Center.<\/p>\n<p>From our analysis, it was concluded that the shares of black and Hispanic faculty members remained significantly below these shares for students consistently over the time period of 2001 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>We also found that shares of black and Hispanic students as well as faculty members did show significant increases from 2002 to 2014, though the faculty increase lagged the student increase.\u00a0 The black and Hispanic enrollment share for undergraduate students increased from 4.04 percentage points from 14.87% in 2002 to 18.91% in 2014.\u00a0 Whereas, this same share for faculty members only increased 3.16 percentage points from 12.65% in 2002 to 15.81% in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>[xyz-ihs snippet=&#8221;Diversity-trends-in-undergrad-enrollment&#8221;]<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following post and data visualization is by guest blogger Lisa Bernardo, highlighting her project for Prof. Harmon\u2019s Economics Independent Study class. This project aimed to analyze diversity of student enrollment versus faculty members at research universities in the United &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2016\/07\/18\/diversity-trends-in-undergraduate-enrollments-and-faculty-at-research-universities-and-colleges-2001-to-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}