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. The more we focus on things like oppression and our separate cultures and histories, the more division and conflict we create. Diversity education teaches multi-cultural elements of history and literature just to make some students feel included. Given these results, it would have been expected that there would be disagreement about specific diversity programs. In fact, there was strong support for such programs.