The Educational Value of Diversity

Alger, Jonathan R.

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“…While all institutions should theoretically have the potential of exposing students to diversity throughout their college careers (Alger, 1997), we found in the case of our academic skills outcome that the positive effects of cross-racial interaction varies by institution. Other studies have also found variations related to diversity across institutions.…”

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Racial Diversity Matters: The Impact of Diversity-Related Student Engagement and Institutional Context

Denson

Chang

2009

American Educational Research Journal

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This study addressed two questions: (a) Do different forms of campus racial diversity contribute uniquely to students' learning and educational experiences when they are simultaneously tested utilizing multilevel modeling? (b) Does a campus where students take greater advantage of those diversity opportunities have independent positive effects on students' learning? Consideration of racial diversity extended beyond student composition and included social and curricular engagement. Results suggest that benefits associated with diversity may be more farreaching than previously documented. Not only do students benefit from engaging with racial diversity through related knowledge acquisition or cross-racial interaction but also from being enrolled on a campus where other students are more engaged with those forms of diversity, irrespective of their own level of engagement. . Her areas of interest include diversity (at both student and faculty levels), diversity-related initiatives in higher education, campus climates, and the impact of higher education on student development. As a graduate student, she became increasingly interested in diversity-related issues in higher education, a topic in which Mitchell J. Chang is an expert. She hopes that this paper will contribute meaningfully to the research supporting the educational benefits of diversity.MITCHELL J. CHANG is a professor at . He specializes in the study of higher education, with an emphasis on campus racial climate, educational access, and opportunity. The controversy over race-conscious admissions practices has been the focus of his research for over a decade. He was amazed by the lack of empirical evidence steering the 5th District Federal Court of Appeals ruling on Hopwood. It turned out that some of the claims made by the courts also made for a rich research agenda.

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Section: Implications and Conclusionmentioning

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Racial Diversity Matters: The Impact of Diversity-Related Student Engagement and Institutional Context

Denson

Chang

2009

American Educational Research Journal

289

167

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“…At the same time, we know relatively little about the factors and institutional conditions that promote and enhance students' experiences with diversity. Virtually all types of colleges and universities assert the value and promise of exposing students during college to all forms of human diversity (Alger, 1997). But do the benefits of diversity extend equally to students in all types of institutions?…”

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Student Experiences with Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges: Another Claim for Distinctiveness

Umbach

Kuh

2006

The Journal of Higher Education

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Student Experiences with Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges:Another Claim for DistinctivenessThis study explores the relationship between organizational and individual characteristics and diversity-related experiences at liberal arts colleges. Compared with their counterparts at other types of institutions, students at liberal arts colleges report more experiences with diversity. In addition, this study also finds that diversity experiences are positively related with a variety of student outcomes. Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges 3 Student Experiences with Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges:Another Claim for Distinctiveness Compelling arguments are coming from all quarters that diversity-related experiences benefit individual students, institutions, and society at large.

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“…Marcy 2004;Border and Chism 1992;Richardson and De los Santos 1988). However, they also have experience of promoting diversity as a central value and mission of the HE experience (Alger 1997), often through various diversity-related experiences and/or courses within general education components of degree programmes (Umbach and Kuh 2006). A significant body of research has demonstrated a positive relationship between engagement in diversity-related activities and levels of student satisfaction (with various academic and experiential outcomes of HE participation), as well as learning, civic and attitudinal outcomes (e.g.…”

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‘Frictional’ relationships … tension in the camp: focusing on the relational in under-represented students’ experiences in higher education

Keane

2009

Irish Educational Studies

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The Educational Value of Diversity

Cited by 29 publications

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Racial Diversity Matters: The Impact of Diversity-Related Student Engagement and Institutional Context

Racial Diversity Matters: The Impact of Diversity-Related Student Engagement and Institutional Context

Student Experiences with Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges: Another Claim for Distinctiveness

‘Frictional’ relationships … tension in the camp: focusing on the relational in under-represented students’ experiences in higher education

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