Schenectady Synecdoche

it is? i've got 3 out of 40--i guess it was 2 out of 40 last year. they're mostly not freshmen, though, so i guess it's a different pool we're pulling from...

This might sound like a dumb question (or even a smartalecky question, depending on how people want to take it), but how are teachers going about determining the racial/ethnic identities of their students? Do they have students write about it or talk about their identities? There's a useful article at New/Demographic about interacting with mixed students, for instance (though it's more aimed at K-12 than college students).

A student in one of my classes once identified himself as Eurasian. I don't know if that made him a student of color or not. I guess I'm saying the statistics are a tricky thing.

Jon I don't, in fact, know how SU is calculating the statistics that the AP story is quoting. Back when I was at Colgate, for example, international students were not counted in what was then called the "minority" statistics. And as you point out, race is no more binary than any other identity marker.

The AP story alludes to students of color, and of course "diversity," to which I alluded here, is a much broader category.

Thanks for the link, Jon.