University of Texas Enrolls First Majority-Minority Class
For the first time in the school’s history, the freshman class at the University of Texas has more minority students than white students.
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This year, there are new federal and state guidelines for reporting such figures, including the introduction of two new race categories: “Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander” and “two or more.” For the first time, the guidelines allow students to identify with more than one category. Any students who identify as Hispanic are counted in the “Hispanic” category only, even if they also identify with other racial groups. Same with students who identify as being black; they’re counted in the “black” category only, regardless of the other races they identify with. This presents an interesting conundrum: If a student identifies as both black and Hispanic, they’re only counted as being Hispanic.
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Hmm, there must be a better way to categorize people.