This steady increase in student diversity over the past several decades is demonstrative of the enduring success of the U.S. Students are also more likely to come from urban versus rural environments, according to the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics 2015). There is also greater socioeconomic diversity among students: the number of Pell Grant recipients nearly doubled within the last two decades to 7.1 million students in 2016 (Chingos 2018). A 2016 NCES survey finds that 19 percent of undergraduates report some type of disability-from limited mobility to learning disabilities to mental health concerns (National Center for Education Statistics 2016). A recent report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) cites increases in college attendance among every racial minority group between 19, and Gallup notes that the number of millennials who identify as LGBT increased from 5.8 percent in 2012 to 8.1 percent in 2017 (National Center for Education Statistics 2018 Newport 2018). Higher education institutions, by all accounts, are more diverse today than ever before. Welcome to Campus: Planning for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Demographic Context This piece originally appeared in the October-December 2018 issue of SCUP’s Planning for Higher Education Journal (Volume 47, Number 1). By Caitlyn Clauson, Sasaki principal and campus planner, and John McKnight, Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion, Connecticut College
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