Diversity In College

“Are you interested in this?” , my dad asks multiple times about multiple sports. I as a four year old just learning about sports, and watching them with my family decide that basketball is for me. So I go on to rec league… I learn how to dribble, pass, and shoot. Time passes and by middle school I can shoot left-handed layups, cross-over behind my back and in between my legs. High school is here.. and I become even more advanced not just with fundamentals, but mentally, and even more aggressively, and physical. I have a purpose, I love the game, and I want to play it as long as I can.

This essay will be arguing that colleges and universities should promote more efforts to diversify and create equal representation of all students. Attending higher education institution for minorities has been an uneasy struggle and one that few minorities accomplish. The dilemma of African American enrollment for example, in a college lecture hall at Texas A&M containing 250 seats, only a maximum 4 out of 250 seats will contain African American students. Unfortunately, many institutions are similar to Texas A&M University, they have an underrepresentation of minorities their on campus in relationship to white students. The lack of diversity keeps stigmas associated with racism relevant and disregards the demographic representation of

Racial diversity is something that is often discussed on college campuses. As a student who self-identifies as a minority in more ways than one I often feel like I have a pretty good understanding of the subject of racism and race. However, often times when these issue are discussed I learn something new; this was the case when reading the articles this week. This week’s articles examined the issue of race from different perspectives. This allowed me to re-examine the issue in a fuller manner; it also allowed me to question some of my own notions that I hadn’t really challenged before.

Within the next 10 years, 75% of community college presidents plan to retire; with 15% more to retire within 11-15 years (McNair, 2015). Due to retirements, there will be a need to fill many new academic leadership positions (Eddy, 2013; Lennon, 2013). The struggle to find and retain highly qualified leaders will be a challenge for community colleges (Jones & Taylor, 2013). An additional concern related to the community college leadership crisis is the gender leadership gap; where few females are appointed as community college leaders (Dahlvig, 2013; Hannum, Muhly, Shockley-Zalabak, & White, 2015). When community colleges seek candidates for president and associated leadership positions, women are considered in the same light as men as per hiring requirements (Fujii, 2014). Yet, in 2012, only 26% of women held university and community college president positions; suggesting that equal representation among women leaders has not yet been realized in higher education (Hannum et al., 2015).

I do personally think that they should put more diverse culture at colleges and have them have several different cultures and for them to have more things that not everyone would hear of on campus. I was at Peru recently and I had seen that there wasn’t that many different cultures on campus but that could have been because we were there the week after they went back to school. One thing that I could see is that they do need to have some type of diversity in there campus. I had seen that SCC has a lot of diversity on campus. Peru just needs to have more diversity. The college applications do need to have some type of question to ask them what type of race they have but they don’t need to be rude about it. They just need to have diversity, they

Fifteen years were spent with nothing but rubber and concrete as I would practice in my front yard with a nine foot hoop. This never fully prepared me for the actual sport. I never focused on any other attributes to the sport of basketball except for shooting. Not to mention it was only with my right hand. I have wanted to play on a team since seventh grade, but injuries limited my ability to do so, including a broken leg and a sprained knee. Therefore, I had to wait until my freshman year to participate. By the time freshman year had came, I was still oblivious to everything I did not know.

As a Christian coming from the Islamic dominated Middle East, I not only bring the unique ethnical and socioeconomic background, but also a slew of life experiences. Along with my experiences, my diverse college studies bring a distinctive well-roundedness to an incoming student cohort. Growing up as a Christian in an Islamic culture, I learnt what it means to belong to a persecuted misunderstood minority. This gave me a unique understanding of dealing with the multitude of minorities in our society. It is almost impossible to describe the feelings and the pressures that affect those who are living as minorities in a society. Those feelings can only be understood through first-hand experience. Therefore, I am able to bring this unique experience

To conduct my research I am first going to decide the purpose of my survey, which is to gain knowledge of peoples exposure to diversity and how that effects there social interactions on campus. I will then decide on the question I will ask and the type of question I will choose to use. For my particular choice of research I will chose to do a combination of open end and multiple choice questions. I choose the combination of the two because I would like to be able to get a more personal response and allow respondents to express their with the use of the open end questions, and having multiple choice questions just to get a view on how they feel about specific topics. To help strength my multiple choice answers I will use the lickert Scale because the structure will give my participants realistic answers to my question but not necessarily put words in their mouth. I will then decide what to ask in my survey that will give me the answers to my research question. When coming up with the question I must avoid putting my opinion in the questions and make sure in my questions the answer that I am trying to discover is clear.

In a Nutshell: Across the country, different institutions have set goals to diversify their faculty population. Campuses such as Boston College and the University of California Riverside shared strategies they have employed to hire more faculty members from underrepresented minority groups. These strategies are not focused on numeral targets or costly initiatives. By implementing these strategies in 2016, Boston College had 39 (46%) tenure-track, and tenured faculty who were from minority backgrounds, and University of California Riverside had 35 (20%) new underrepresented-minority faculty.

Being at university is such an incredible experience because it gives you a sense of what the real world looks like. You shape yourself and allow the entire experience to decide the kind of human being you want to be. Make sure you take advantage of every opportunity to meet new people, share stories and laugh. Diversity is something that as students of NMMU, we should all strive for.

When I was younger, I wanted to be one of the most extraordinary basketball players in the world. An example of my ambitiousness was revealed one day when I was twelve years old. I was shooting hoops at my house one day and I was getting frustrated. My mother taught me three things to get over my frustration. She told me: don’t overdo things, the pros mess up too, and basketball isn’t the most important thing.

Being a woman of color means I am inevitably silenced by the superior white male, yet being an activist eliminates my voice by the majority in all forms. My first year of college has been interesting, to say the very least. I’ve grown accustomed to the distinct differences and surprising similarities between myself and the hundreds, maybe thousands, of other students on campus, which I wasn’t familiar with among the fifty-two people in my high school graduating class.

For some, a college campus is the first time they are in a diverse environment. Especially at a school such as Potsdam which is located in a small, rural town. With so little people living in the surrounding areas there is thus not a diverse population. The local people who then come to this college may have never seen a black person before because that is how isolated the town is. Even for students that grew up around what they thought was diverse are surprised by the diversity they encounter here. College is a diverse place, but it often lacks a strong sense of diversity. The campus community was rocked last year when a black professor received multiple hate-filled letters from a former student. The students were outraged, and thus reacted

I am currently a Junior at University of Central Florida. From the looks of it I am rather impressed with the scene. Their are several fun things to get into. The Greek life, sports, concerts, and anything else that you casn think of. There is a huge amount of diversity on the campus. All types of backgrounds stay on the campus and help me feel much more comfortarable. The teachers and students are both very nice to me and are willing to give a helping hand. The campus is also very clean and well kept after showing that are poeple who care. I do not have that many complains since there is always something to do. There are concerst abd special events to go to and they are usually very cheap. There are several computer labs and study areas

In all honesty, I have struggled with the term “diversity” for quite some time now. Before going to college, I lived in a very white, small, conservative, pull yourself up by your boot straps town. When I came to terms with my sexual identity in high school and started familiarizing myself with “diversity”, I thought I knew it all. I was one of the only gay people in my high school. To no surprise, little ol’ me was completely wrong. College was a whole new world for me to learn from. However, it was also a time for me to unlearn my problematic ways from my upbringing. After getting involved during my undergraduate experience and connecting to numerous departments on campus, I heard “diversity” being thrown around left and right by student