The more we know about each other, the better we will get along. Just as college faculty should keep updating the information they use to teach their students, they should also incorporate new information about the diversity of America into their courses. The changing characteristics of America's population make diversity education necessary. It is just as important for colleges to prepare people to succeed in a diverse world as it is to prepare people with technical or academic skills. Learning mutual respect and understanding has to start well before college.
Diversity education creates respect for differences and helps ease tensions between people.
There is a lot of important information about various cultures in the United States that has been overlooked by college faculty in the past. The more we focus on things like oppressions and our separate cultures and histories, the more division and conflict we create. The problem with diversity is that it's used as an excuse to admit graduate students who wouldn't otherwise make it. Some arguments made by opponents of diversity education have resonance. Diversity education emphasizes our differences and breeds conflict.