Cultural Diversity: Campus Climates And Classroom Instruction

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effectiveness of a diverse democracy and, therefore builds a mutually respectfully community.
I would like to see more diversity courses offered at the campus that encourages students to understand the concepts of culture and their ramifications, so students can use these for insights into and active engagements within a specific culture. In this effort, the students could discuss diversity courses at their learning, rather than keeping them peripheral to their knowledge, lives, and society. This curriculum could also assist students in developing an appreciation for and a growing sensitivity to cultures other than their own. For if the university does not value diversity and encourage a diverse climate for the students, what example will they be setting in a culture where societies continue to become increasingly mixed in its own ethnic make up.
All diversity courses should present to students the complexity and the uniqueness of the specific cultures: acquaint students with ...

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to the campus. In addition, to scholarships there have been increased recruiting efforts toward targeting black high school graduates living in West Tennessee, but what about the other ethnic backgrounds.
How has the university tried to recruit Native Americans, Asian American, or Hispanic cultures to the campus? Maybe the university could offer more diversity among the faculty. (I would feel more comfortable with someone of my own ethnic background teaching me.) In addition to diversifying the faculty, one might want to look at standardized test scores. For the simple reasoning that realistically, the test has a tendency to be specifically geared toward white Americans. If there ...

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