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who hire RAs and once with RAs. Purposeful
sampling was used to assemble members for
each focus group because it allowed us to assemble a range of experienced staff who could
speak to important aspects of our topic that
we could not have assembled from other sampling choices (Creswell, 2012). Specifically, the
member composition of the focus group with
professionals represented the overall structural
diversity of the professional staff; however, the

composition of the focus group with RAs included higher percentages of persons of color
and international students than in the overall
RA staff. Detailed notes were kept throughout
the entire data collection process. These notes
were particularly important in helping the researchers to monitor and process their reflections about the data.
At each stage of data collection, the researchers analyzed the data against the back-

Table 1
Percentages of Underrepresented Students in Undergraduate Registrants, RA Applicant Pools,
and RA Hired Staff
Academic year
Student population

2008-2009

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2012-2013

2013-2014

2014-2015

3.2%

3.3%

3.2%

3.4%

Black, non-Hispanic students
Percent of undergraduate
registrants

2.9%

3.4%

3.2%

Percent of RA applicant pool

4.3%

4.3%

4.9%

6.1%

5.9%

6.3%

7.1%

Percent of RA hired staff

5.3%

6.4%

6.4%

9.3%

3.6%

6.1%

7.2%

Asian American, non-Hispanic students
Percent of undergraduate
registrants

13.7%

14.1%

14.5%

13.9%

13.5%

13.3%

13.4%

Percent of RA applicant pool

16.7%

16.9%

18.5%

15.2%

17.7%

15.5%

16.0%

Percent of RA hired staff

11.4%

14.2%

15.7%

14.6%

16.3%

16.9%

16.6%

Percent of undergraduate
registrants

7.0%

7.4%

8.2%

8.6%

9.3%

9.3%

9.7%

Percent of RA applicant pool

6.9%

7.7%

4.6%

6.7%

8.0%

10.1%

8.7%

Percent of RA hired staff

6.4%

7.8%

4.3%

6.4%

5.1%

7.5%

7.6%

Percent of undergraduate
registrants

7.2%

8.5%

9.4%

11.6%

13.5%

15.9%

18.6%

Percent of RA applicant pool

6.0%

5.4%

5.4%

5.9%

6.8%

3.5%

5.9%

Percent of RA hired staff

1.8%

3.2%

4.3%

5.3%

3.6%

1.4%

4.0%

Hispanic students

International students

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