February 17, 2009
Q&A: Researcher Describes Mixed Educational Benefits of Campus Diversity
Colleges have talked for decades about the educational benefits of diversity on their campuses without offering much research to show how students are affected by exposure to members of other racial and ethnic groups. In an effort to fill that gap in knowledge, James Sidanius, a professor of psychology and of African and African-American studies at Harvard University, led a team of researchers in conducting a long-term study of about 2,000 students who entered the University of California at
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