Humanist Reasons For Increasing Diversity

In a world that is becoming increasingly dynamic and interconnected where each of us are becoming more dependent on each other, diversity is a crucial element of life. Never in human history have students had available to them the

Diversity was tragically scarce in my hometown. The unspoken common goal, seemingly, was to be the exact same as all the other students with regard to clothes, boots, and even designer lunch boxes. Many students acted, dressed, and even spoke differently at home, meaning diversity in the students existed, but was not accepted. Diversity carries little to no meaning without inclusivity. However, inclusivity brings meaning to diversity by ensuring a positive and consequently productive learning environment. I believe a diverse and inclusive learning environment is essential to a productive work environment because diverse ideas bring innovation. Repetitive contributions are hardly helpful when the information shared is neither new nor different

The first few chapters outline the main problems with diversity that business deal with. While the rest of the book goes deeper in to the issues and ways to overcome or avoid the problems to create a truly diverse institute. The author gives background into the Noah’s Ark theory as well as the “grandma” effect. She also talks about the dynamics of dominate and non-dominate groups in the work place as she relates them to the Elephant and Mouse theory.

Diversity is valued at Washburn University for the simple fact that it encourages a thriving intellectual environment. This opens the space for an abundance of new and innovative thoughts. The most important line in the diversity statement is the listing of all the different ways a person can be different and unique. All these differences bring in fresh ideas and various points of view allowing us ourselves to become more cultured. Scholars must have and support diversity simply for the need to keep an open mind. If you can’t accept the differences of those who surround you how can you hope to learn anything worthwhile?

According to Wood (2004), diversity is America's newest cultural ideal. Furthermore, the author argued that diversity sprawls across politics, law, education, business, entertainment, personal aspiration, religion, and the arts, as an encompassing claim about human identity. Under these conditions, 21st Century organizations are shifting their recruitment and hiring policy to create a diverse workforce. Likewise, universities are instituting new admissions rules to establish a diverse student body. The importance of diversity has many roles and effects. For example, diversity can improve productivity, create innovation, enhance robustness, produce collective knowledge, and perhaps most important, sustain further diversity (Page, 2011,

The realm of Higher Education is experiencing the same uncomfortable push occurring in other areas of modern society; the need for diversity. As it related to student population, the work of developing and nurturing diversity is experiencing marketed success, yet the trouble stems from

This article discusses the different forms of racial diversity contribution to students’ educational and learning experiences and the autonomous positive effects on students who adopt these diversity opportunities. The author demonstrates how the quality of higher education is substantially heightened by diversity-connected efforts. Those efforts improve students learning and experiences by cultivating key behaviors and knowledge and by providing a unique educational context.

I live in a community that consists of residents with similar characteristics as myself. The schools I attended prior to CCSU consisted mostly of students that were African American. Despite not being in a diverse community I understand that diversity is important. I recognize that the less open-minded people are of other ethnicities the more the community is bias. However, since attending CCSU I made the decision to join activities that I would never consider doing before. For example, attending seminars on different cultures and joining the Inter-resident budget committee. On the other hand, some of the activities I did participate in a few people would point out as not “black activities”. When they said prejudice comments like this it always ponders my mind as to what they are actually implying. To label a particular race to an activity is offensive. People should embrace diversity instead of shunning it.

To help schools provide a good self-assessment on diversity Robert Shireman (2003) suggested 10 poignant questions colleges and universities need to ask when reporting their progress on diversity. The first question is to ask how the institution defines diversity and if their definition has a focus on gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability and other factors? The reason for the added focus is because, by just focusing on

Although, cognitively diversity is necessary for a company’s success it is not often implemented as it is difficult to find, people tend to hire those individuals that are like them, and that people are often scared to voice their different perspectives. Therefore, focus on getting rid of these barriers as a means to help the organization

The United States is one of the most diverse nations on the earth, originally conceived so, and often described as a great melting pot, as “all nations are melted into a new race of man, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world” (St. John de Crèvecoeur, 1782). Yet, despite the country’s diverse population, the workplace remains a place of inequality as women and minorities continue to earn less than their white male counterparts (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2011; U.S. Census Bureau, 2009) and advance less in managerial and professional positions (Kinicki & Kreitner, 2008). The question of workplace diversity is a polarizing debate with proponents of diversity measures arguing the business benefit of

What better way to bring character and depth to a university than to encourage diversity? The multiple avenues diversity can be defined by is vital to understand before diving into the effects diversity can have. Race, ethnicity, religion, and gender are all important to consider when looking at their effect on a student body. By looking at each individually, one can begin to imagine the monumental effects diversity has.

When the word diversity comes up in conversation, the first thing most people think of is racial diversity. I too, when first presented with this prompt, thought that very thing, but being a white female in a town where the majority of the population is white I didn’t think that I had much diversity to speak of. But then it dawned on me that there is diversity within itself. Diversity can be different hobbies, different family backgrounds, different life experiences. Within myself I am filled with diversity, a diversity that sets me apart from the crowd and prepares me to excel in a community such as the one at University of Colorado Boulder.

It is important to find out information on the person you are caring for so that you can respect their needs and beliefs, you should always reflect on and celebrate the diversity of the people you are supporting and take the time to find out about their personal history, by talking with them or reading any information you have will give you a deeper insight into their likes and dislikes, and listen to what they have to say.

Different aspects of diversity in higher education are an ongoing topic of debate. In order for us to address the issue of diversity, we need to understand what diversity means. This paper reviews a study used at the University of Florida to assess their faculty’s meaning of diversity. It also looked at the faculty’s openness to diversity and the effect diversity has had on them. Researchers at Weber State University could use this, or a similar study, to gain an understanding of what diversity means to faculty at Weber State, as well as diversity’s impact.