Federal standards for maintaining, collecting and presenting data on race and ethnicity have changed. Data collection using new codes begins in August 2009 for students; and in November 2009 for faculty and staff, which means that everywhere UNM collects, stores and uses race and ethnicity data must be brought into compliance with the new federal standards.
In January, UNM President David Schmidly formed the Federal Race and Ethnicity Codes Compliance Project and charged it with ensuring that the update process takes place efficiently and consistently across the University.
Led by Josephine De Leon, vice president for Equality and Inclusion, and Valerie Romero-Leggott, vice president for Diversity for the UNM Health Sciences Center, the project is working with the UNM Hospital and more than 60 business units across all campuses to identify and update all data collection instruments, data storage systems and reports that contain race and ethnicity information.
If your office has forms, systems or reports that include race and ethnicity information and you have not been contacted by the Codes Compliance project, please contact: resurvey@unm.edu.