In 2005, the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) launched a new initiative to address the diversity of college students in the United States and the quality of their learning. Called “Making Excellence Inclusive,” the initiative began with the premise that colleges and universities should offer the highest quality learning to students least likely [...]
Making Excellence Inclusive
A multicolored campus is one that wants to change little to accommodate the differences of others but require those that are of different colors and cultures to assimilated into a uni-cultural environment.
When two cultures converge and create something new that is familiar yet new and different that is a third culture sound.
Students may think that a minority instructor is less credentialed and give less respect. Staff may ignore the experiences and perspectives of minority instructors because they are assumed to “play the race card.”