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Updates to Decades-Old New Federal Standards for Race, Ethnicity Data Will Change How Students are Counted

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

These changes, informed by extensive public engagement, aim to modernize and standardize race and ethnicity data collections to improve uniformity and comparability across federal data sets and their usefulness for equity-driven policymaking. Full compliance across all data collections and publications is required by March 2029.