Data for Discussion: Colleges, Universities, and Diversity

Team member Connie Williams sent a link to to the data graphs below, showing lists of various colleges and universities and their diversity levels.

Shown below is the discussion of the data created by the vendor who created the graphs; here is the data as displayed by the customer, BestColleges.com).

What do you see in this data and accompanying text? What questions do you have? How would you engage students in “interrogating the data,” as team member Jole Seroff mentioned in her webinar last week?

About Kristin Fontichiaro

Kristin Fontichiaro is the principal investigator of this IMLS-funded project and a clinical associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.