Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 67.18
Liaison Weston Dripps
Submission Date Aug. 19, 2024

STARS v3.0

Amherst College
PA-7: Racial and Ethnic Diversity

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.18 / 3.00 Weston Dripps
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Sustainability
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7.1 Ethnic diversity index

Provide ethnic diversity index figures within a range from 0 to 1.

Completed racial and ethnic diversity worksheet:
Amherst_Social_Equity_Worksheet_v3.0.xlsx

Ethnic diversity index for students:
0.71

Ethnic diversity index for academic staff:
0.49

Ethnic diversity index for non-academic staff:
0.40

Ethnic diversity index for executive staff:
0.15

The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:

Points earned for indicator PA 7.1:
0.58

7.2 Percentage of marginalized racial, ethnic, and/or Indigenous groups equitably represented among students

Total number of marginalized racial, ethnic, and/or Indigenous groups in the region served by the institution:
5

Number of marginalized racial, ethnic, and/or Indigenous groups that are equitably represented among students:
2

Description of the methodology and data source(s) used to identify the region served and its demographics:

Demographic data for students is sourced from the 12-month Unduplicated Count by Race/Ethnicity and Gender section of Amherst's IPEDS report. Our students come from all across the US and so we compared our percentages to the national demographic data. Demographic data for the United States is sourced from the 2023 US Census.


The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following two figures:

Percentage of marginalized, racial, ethnic, and Indigenous groups that are equitably represented among students:
40

Points earned for indicator PA 7.2:
0.40

7.3 Percentage of marginalized racial, ethnic, and/or Indigenous groups equitably represented among employees

Number of marginalized racial, ethnic, and/or Indigenous groups that are equitably represented among regular/permanent academic staff:
2

Number of marginalized racial, ethnic, and/or Indigenous groups that are equitably represented among regular/permanent non-academic staff:
1

Number of marginalized racial, ethnic, and/or Indigenous groups that are equitably represented among executive staff:
0

The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following four figures:

Percentage of marginalized, racial, ethnic, and Indigenous groups that are equitably represented among regular/permanent academic staff:
40

Percentage of marginalized, racial, ethnic, and Indigenous groups that are equitably represented among regular/permanent non-academic staff:
20

Percentage of marginalized, racial, ethnic, and Indigenous groups that are equitably represented among executive staff:
0

Points earned for indicator PA 7.3:
0.20

Optional documentation

Notes about the information provided for this credit:

Data Sources

  1. Demographic data for students is sourced from the 12-month Unduplicated Count by Race/Ethnicity and Gender section of Amherst's IPEDS report.
  2. Demographic data for academic staff and non-academic staff is sourced from the IPEDS S2022_OC dataset (“Full- and part-time staff by occupational category, race/ethnicity, and gender: Fall 2022”).
  3. Demographic data for executive staff is based on the most recent available data from HR.
  4. Demographic data for the United States is sourced from the 2023 US Census.

Additional documentation for this credit:
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