We recently learned that IPEDS is no longer using the term "alien" when referring to non-U.S. Citizens. (https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/public/changes-to-the-current-year)
Should we be expecting Populi to follow this change?
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Toby Robinson Official comment Populi now uses "U.S. Nonresident" instead of "U.S. Nonresident alien."
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Adam Sentz Clay McFerrin - IPEDS 2022 updates (which includes this change) are completed but not released yet. Shouldn't be too long, but we're a little more cautious with releases as things ramp up this time of year.
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Clay McFerrin Good to know, thanks!
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Clay McFerrin To clarify: IPEDS uses these two terms:
- U.S. Nonresident: a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely.
- Resident (and other eligible non-citizens): a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States but who has been admitted as a legal immigrant for the purpose of obtaining permanent resident status (and who holds either a registration card (Form I-551 or I-151), a Temporary Resident Card (Form I-688), or an Arrival-Departure Record (Form I-94) with a notation that conveys legal immigrant status such as Section 207 Refugee, Section 208 Asylee, Conditional Entrant Parolee or Cuban-Haitian).
This Populi FAQ says, "If they aren't a US citizen, but they have a Primary or Home address in the US, they are reported as U.S. Nonresident."
So, in the Citizenship field on the profile of a non-U.S. Citizen, if the individual....
- Is a legal immigrant and Permanent Resident, then we should indicate the country of which they are a citizen and select "Resident," which will then appear next to their Citizenship.
- Is authorized to be here only temporarily (i.e., on a student visa), then we should indicate the country of which they are a citizen and select "Nonresident,"which will then appear next to their Race/Ethnicity as "U.S. Nonresident."
Is that correct? It's rather confusing to have "Resident" appear with Citizenship (which makes it look like they still reside in that country even though they're in the U.S), but then "U.S. Nonresident" (which similarly implies that the individual is not currently residing in the U.S., although they actually are) appears with Race/Ethnicity.
Maybe by the time I retire the gov't will have figured out a sensible nomenclature.
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Adam Sentz Clay McFerrin - Sounds correct. It's understandably confusing.
The Resident checkbox is contextual and relates to their citizenship. Your school is in the US, they are a citizen of another country. Do they have Resident status or not?
U.S. Nonresident displays by the Race/Ethnicity because it's the IPEDS reporting category for a non-US resident.
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