Racial Diversity In University

The College of Arts and Sciences is comprised of four divisions: Fine Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. The curriculum of the College is designed to meet the needs and interests of a diverse, multicultural student body. Explain what interests you in the Arts or Sciences, and how studying at Howard University will help you achieve your overall goals?

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.

look around, and once again I'm in the minority'" (as quoted in Mangan, 2015). Students who attend HBCUs do so with the impression that they will be surrounded by a grand majority of black students, professors, culture and history. Most HBCU students do not enter their first day of college expecting to see a significant amount of racial diversity on campus, however, due to shifts in HBCUs, a significant amount of racial diversity is exactly what they encounter. This causes HBCUs to lose their identity of being historically black. For example, a student at Delaware State University states "I don't really think of Del State as a historically black college, even though it is, because it's so diverse" (as quoted in Madeline, 2015). This is a great

Affirmative action, particularly in the school setting, needs to dematerialize immediately. Attempting to solve certain types of discrimination has inversely created more discrimination to others. Quotas created to diversify student bodies and belief systems that come along with these students is constructing unforeseen problems. Focusing on creating a more diverse campus has actually created a lower standard of learning. “Ever since affirmative action has come into play, many organizations, particularly schools, businesses, and federally funded establishments, have been forced to lower their standards so that more blacks and certain group of minorities can be admitted to the university and get hired for a job” (Fischer). Affirmative action has taught minorities to look for easy access, and it’s diminishing the value of hard work to achieve success.

New York University is a school that amazes me in every aspect. With its WRITE QUALITIES. Nonetheless, the location of the school is what takes my breath away—New York City. To me, the city is a mystifying place left to be explored by its many inhabitants; a place of discovery, wonder, excitement, confusion, and opportunities. Diversity is a huge part of NYU as its student body contains numerous international students and people of color. The chance to learn about different cultures and ideas inspires me as the diversity doesn’t stop at the school’s buildings. It continues into every borough of the city and would allow me to connect with unique people and their backgrounds.

Campus diversity cannot be a priority just for those who are hurt by a lack of it. The entire campus benefits from an array of viewpoints and backgrounds, and this can best be achieved through working together and communicating to improve the diversity climate on

Last week I had the privilege of joining President Obama and the first lady at a White House summit designed to spur efforts to make sure that higher education serves as an engine of upward mobility rather than a replicator of inequality. One hundred college presidents came with formal pledges in hand, committing time and resources to strategies to improve access and success of disadvantaged young adults. The three heads of California’s public systems all attended, including the University of California’s new system president, former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

Opposers of diversity argue the addition of diversity in universities cause a less level of educational satisfaction. The argument points toward negative race relations, rejection of high score students, and the relaxing of academic standards among faculty members. Stanley Rothman says, “A higher level of diversity is associated with somewhat less educational satisfaction and worse race relations among students.” (123). Universities are prestigious institutions, often requiring a Ph.D to serve as a professor. Professors will not lower the difficulty of the material given or grade more lenient because a minority is taking part in the class. Yes, there will be a performance difference between the minority student and their counterparts, decreasing the academic reputation of the school, but the academic standards will remain the same no matter how many minority students are enrolled in the university. College

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.

“Starting in 1988 there was a real movement to address diversity issues on campus, not just in terms of the presence of the students but to increase the knowledge and awareness of students.”

Too often there is a lack of unity between sexes, cultures, and races due to stereotyping and mistrust. When these issues are ignored ideas become lost, disagreements are inevitable and the attempt to unite and act on important problems becomes impossible. In an educational system, having a diverse faculty, staff and students is incredibly important because it helps people learn about different cultures and grow out of their comfort zones. However, if within that academic community racial tensions exist, especially among the faculty, a challenge is presented and an educator has to consider how he can encourage diversity in his classroom when he himself is having an issue with it in the workplace.

The quota and affirmative action policies in Indian higher education have been successful to enhance the enrollment of the lower castes, women, and marginalized student groups. However, it does not provide institutional support mechanisms to protect them against discrimination and injustice. The presence of a significant and growing population of the oppressed student groups on college campuses has been perceived as a challenge to the historical hegemony of the privileged social groups. The compositional student diversity without institutional focus to benefit of diverse student body and enrich the learning environment for all. The student diversity has created a range of issues on the college campuses. Therefore, in the last decade alone, numerous incidents of caste-based discrimination, gender injustice, and coercion of democratic values have been reported on the campuses across the country.

According to A CBS News research in 2009, the majority of Americans support diversity on college campuses through race policies in Higher Education. This statistic give an indicator that

Racial diversity should be facilitated into nationwide colleges and universities. A percentage of these institutions fail to have their racial demographics sufficiently proportioned to society in general. A diverse institution can ideologically be explained as representing the traditional attitudes and values of America; sufficiently different in regards to ethnicities. A diversity dilemma occurs when such status is nonexistent. For instance, there is a school whose student body is composed of unproportionate percentages of ethnicities, seventy-five percent other and twenty-five percent Caucasian. It is a form of cultural deprivation to minority populations and ideal for one’s culture to be lost.

ayers and basketball players then it was the opposite. The black girls at Saint Mary’s often segregated themselves off, not because they did not want to be friends with the white population. But more to create an atmosphere that keeps their own cultural values with one another. It was white class privilege floating all around Notre Dame, Indiana. I felt like most kids were educated in catholic or boarding or top tier public schools. Their schools offered a rigorous college-preparatory curriculum and a broad range of extracurricular activities aimed at helping them to become more competitive to gain elite college admission. Going to a predominantly white institution it made my world feel small. In fact it was one of the reasons I transferred to DePaul, a school in Chicago. I always been in schools where I was a minority yet now I was a majority. I could not comprehend how people are okay with only being around only white people. Yet slowly I understand if one grows up always around all white people or vice versa all black people become accustomed to that way of life.