{"id":20253,"date":"2021-11-01T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/?p=20253"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:08:21","slug":"examining-student-faculty-similarities-and-graduation-outcomes-for-hispanic-latinx-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/2021\/11\/01\/examining-student-faculty-similarities-and-graduation-outcomes-for-hispanic-latinx-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining student-faculty similarities and graduation outcomes for Hispanic\/Latinx students"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In our previous blog post<\/a>, we examined the relationship between the demographic similarity of faculty to students on campus and six-year graduation rates for Black or African American students<\/span>. <\/span>Across Doctoral Universities and Master’s Universities, there is a positive association, as a\u00a0<\/span>higher representation of Black or African American faculty when compared to student representation on campus is positively correlated with higher graduation rates for Black or African American students<\/span><\/b>. <\/span>In this post, we turn our attention to data for Hispanic\/Latinx students\/faculty to see whether the same patterns found in the overall data exist within institutional types as defined by Carnegie Classification groups. There is also a discussion of other factors which are related to student outcomes in addition to the student-faculty similarity index.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Does institutional type influence the link between demographic similarity and graduation rates?<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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By way of review, the Location Quotient (LQ) scores on the x-axis in the two visualizations below show how closely the representation of Hispanic\/Latinx faculty at a campus mirrors that of the student body. An LQ score of 1.0 represents a perfect match, with LQ scores below 1.0 showing underrepresentation of faculty, while scores above 1.0 show overrepresentation of faculty. Over 94-percent of the public universities in the IPEDS dataset have an LQ score below 1.0 for Hispanic\/Latinx faculty and students. In the two visualizations below, the size of each mark is based on the total undergraduate enrollment in fall 2019. The color-coding scheme is associated with the institutional levels in the Carnegie Classification system. The vertical line at the 1.0 mark on the x-axis shows where there is a perfect match between demographic representation of students and faculty. The lines running left-to-right across the scatterplot shows the relationship between LQ Score and Graduation Rate for Hispanic\/Latinx students. Texas universities are labeled for easier identification.<\/span><\/p>\n