Hispanics considered URMs?

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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:49:47 +0000

In 1997, the Office of Management and Budget, which is the standard setting agency in the Federal Government for racial/ethnic data collection, issued a revision of Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, which stated the following:



The revised standards will have five minimum categories for data on race: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and White. There will be two categories for data on ethnicity: “Hispanic or Latino” and “Not Hispanic or Latino.”



You all may want to read this document; it’s pretty interesting. It is based on these definitions that colleges collect and report data to the Feds.

[Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity](http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/1997standards.html)