Changing Demographics: What Does It Mean Now and in the Future? - Higher Education: We live in a society where racial demographics serve as a factor in how we fund, operate, and make policies about our higher education institutions. People tend to steer away from acknowledging race as an influential component to education, but it is intertwined in the fabric and has become so much a part of the culture that it is unrecognizable. I could provide extensive examples of this; however, as education professionals we may have encountered these racial differences a time or two or heard stories about them. Over the past few years there have been reports stating that there will be a shift in U.S. racial demographics over the next 40 to 50 years. I have provided some of the statistics below.
From the 2000 to the 2010 Census, the Hispanic population has increased by 15.2 million people, 16.3 percent of the US population; making this group the largest racial minority population. However, over the 10-year span, there was a decrease in the proportion of the non-Hispanic White population from 69 to 64 percent of the total population.
