This perception continues into the classrooms. Here, minority students also feel that their roles as teachers interfere with their academic goals. They experience classroom settings where they are singled out to represent their entire minority to the rest of the class. These students perceive that there is no diversity learning in Middlebury classrooms. They expressed the wish that faculty should look more like what we want the student body to look like.
More classes focusing on various cultures have to be available.
The curriculum has to reflect the importance of diversity to this campus and the College s mission to its students. In this respect the First Year Seminars could play an important role if we added a mandatory component of diversity to their composition. In the minds of most students the College assumes that you have already found yourself or established your identity before you arrive here, when in fact this identity is still developing. Some students experience classroom settings where creativity seems not to be encouraged, rather structure and conformity seem to be dominant. Students ask for more interdisciplinary courses.