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.
The Sociology Department is perceived as already working on familiarizing students with the interaction between real life and academia. To bridge these two realms, all groups call for a diversity center and something like a minority council. The majority groups, such as members of the Inter-House Council, support this request. Students from the dominant culture view themselves as such. They view the Middlebury Campus as primarily consisting of privileged upper white middle class students.