It s a win-win proposition.
Recent research shows how individuals and institutions gain from greater diversity on campus.
Over the past few decades, administrators and faculty have come to embrace diversity in higher education because of the opportunities it creates for teaching and learning. Ironically, during the same period, our ability to ensure that students and faculty of different racial and ethnic backgrounds can come to our institutions has become subject to more and more constraints. Left unchallenged, these myths can give rise to misguided policies. The first myth or misconception is that we no longer need affirmative action in higher education because the playing field has been leveled that is, inequities in access to higher education for members of racial and ethnic minority groups are a thing of the past. Yet abundant evidence documents the effects of persisting inequalities on low-income students and students of color in the United States.