APRIL 1, 2020 — While the world is self-isolating and creating social distance between one another, the U.S. Census wants to ensure everyone is still being counted and counted in the right place.
As this relates to college students, it is important to note that students should be counted where they spend most of their time. Shelter-in-place guidelines have caused many UTSA students to return to reside at their permanent address; however, it is important to remember that students should still be counted where they live most of the time. For college students, this means their typical residence while attending college.
Students who lived on campus at the beginning of this semester in university-owned residence halls will be counted in the group-quarters process that the university will complete with the U.S. Census.
Students living off campus and all faculty and staff are encouraged to complete the census process online. The online process is quick and accessible from anywhere. The best way to be counted is to complete the census online.
Census count is important because the data helps the federal government decide how to distribute $600 billion worth of funding to state and local governments. Federal funding programs that aid higher education institutions and students use census data to help make funding decisions. This includes the Federal Direct Student Loan and Pell Grant programs; these programs provided over $7.2 billion worth of funding for students in Texas in 2016.
An undercount of Texas’ population by even 1% in 2020 could result in a loss of $300 million of federal funding per year. It also affects the allocation of funding for our community’s public resources, like fire departments, schools, health clinics, and even roads and highways.
⇒ Check out UTSA's census website for more information.
The population count informs the reapportionment of the U.S. House of Representatives, and an undercount can also cause Texas to lose a seat in Congress.
The UTSA community is encouraged to take a few minutes to ensure they have been counted in the U.S. Census.
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