Anushka Gupta's Senior Project

This week I went to Bend with my family for my birthday. There, I was able to work on my survey analysis in a new environment and get insight from my family. My favorite memory was showing the survey analysis to my brother, who surprised me by coming home from college for my birthday. He was so excited to see my work and impressed by the depth of the survey I had conducted. He also gave me some recommendations on what to include in my report, which was helpful since I felt a little bit stuck this week. I have learned a lot about how students actually feel about race and ethnicity on campus. While there have been varying opinions and some criticism of the survey itself, I've been most interested by the sheer number of ideas that students have for how we can improve. I've worked on summarizing all of the qualitative data and have found a great list of topics we can cover better in the curriculum, races that could be better represented, and generally questions that I can easily pa...

 For my senior project, I have elected to analyze the data from a survey conducted by Catlin Gabel ARC (Antiracism Collective) earlier this year. This survey focused on race and ethnicity at Catlin and had over 30 questions (multiple choice and free response), gauging over 270 responses from the Upper School students who received it. For this project, I am working with a few members of ARC who helped me conduct the survey in February. I will use their help to present my analysis/report/presentation to Aline, John, and Jasmine. I have already picked out a date and time for this meeting.  ARC has been a very important part of my life this year. Combining social justice with a grassroots student movement on campus has been an amazing experience for me, and one that I'd love for future Catlin Gabel students to have. This year especially has highlighted the importance of social justice involvement for youth and the change that we can make. I've been inspired by the energy of my gen...