The following two questions ask about race/ethnicity. Although we recognize that both the concept of race and the specific categories indicated below are controversial, potentially offensive, incomplete, or biased toward the United States, the data are being collected in accordance with the standard "Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System" (IPEDS) reporting requirements for U.S. educational institutions (see http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/news_room/ana_Changes_to_10_25_2007_169.asp).
As with all other questions in this survey, answering is entirely optional, and you may explicitly decline to state.