Diversity at Tulane

fallenchemist
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:34:54 +0000

I don’t detect any posts where people “take offense at the idea that a person of color wants to go to a university that is diverse, accepting, and has a population with some students that look like her.” smchls is the only one that said they wouldn’t use that as a criterion, and he/she certainly didn’t make it sound like they thought it was offensive. After all, don’t we all wish it never made any difference to anyone? MLK Jr. said just that about 50 years ago.

I completely understand the innate desire to self-segregate by ethnicity. Even at schools that have much more balanced numbers, there is endless talk about how all the ethnic groups hang out with each other the vast majority of the time. Seems to defeat the purpose of having a higher minority population. In any case, I guess I just continue to wonder how the numbers ever get more in balance if minorities only choose schools where there are already a lot of minority students. Seems like an endless loop.