<p>“it was a question from my generation”</p>
<p>I find myself in similar moments. And although I’m not naive enough to think we’re ‘post-racial’ by any stretch of the imagination - it IS nice that mtnmomma & I both notice that times indeed they are a-changin’ - slowly for the better.</p>
<p>katliamom (post #56) - I think we agree. I was addressing the OP question of why diversity is important. Even though the goals of diversity might not be reached outside the classroom because of self segregation I assumed the classroom would always benefit from diversity.</p>
<p>Although maybe I am wrong based on qwertykey’s post…</p>
<p>“Although maybe I am wrong based on qwertykey’s post…”</p>
<p>I don’t understand it; It suppose it’s supposed to be subtle.</p>
<p>^“Where I go is supposedly 9% URM (presumably the majority of that are Black students), but I look around my classes and never see any. Somehow they do it…”</p>
<p>What does "they " refer to here? They do what? URM’s choosing not to take classes so they can only hang out with each other? My D goes to one of those “9% schools”, and I can’t imagine that thinking. Maybe you mean a “groups” tendency to prefer science/math vs humanities. Good thing there is a core curriculum.</p>
<p>And as wonderful as 9 percent is, that’s still less than one in ten.</p>
<p>"What does “they " refer to here? They do what? URM’s choosing not to take classes so they can only hang out with each other? My D goes to one of those “9% schools”, and I can’t imagine that thinking. Maybe you mean a “groups” tendency to prefer science/math vs humanities. Good thing there is a core curriculum.”</p>
<p>The 9% refers specifically to the Engineering school here. I genuinely mean that I never see anyone who is obviously a URM (If someone was an upper-middle class White Hispanic, there’s a good chance I wouldn’t know just by looking at them) in any of my classes (save one, which happens to not be an Engineering class). I don’t mean I only see 9%, I mean I see 0%. </p>
<p>I don’t know if they all leave by the time they hit 200-level classes, or if was just the luck of the draw and is purely coincidental, or what. I saw URMs in my 100-level engineering classes, in my 200-level math/sci classes, but I don’t see them anymore. They’re not there.</p>
<p>I’m not specifically trying to imply anything, just pointing out my observation.</p>
<p>I guess I’m trying to say that a school that admits more URMs isn’t necessarily a school that is going to have more diverse classes.</p>
<p>I see. </p>
<p>“I’m not specifically trying to imply anything, just pointing out my observation.”</p>
<p>Okay…</p>