From Diverse Online
Report Measures Levels of Campus Inclusivity at Three Colleges and Universities
By Michelle J. Nealy
May 8, 2008, 21:42
Intolerance, threats and verbal insults pervaded the campuses of three predominately White institutions, the University of California, Berkeley, Michigan State University, and Columbia College, according to a student survey in the recently released report, “If I’d Only Known.”
The report reveals that more than 60 percent of students at MSU reported witnessing or personally experiencing such incidents of **** based on intolerance, followed by 49 percent of students at UC Berkeley and 43 percent of students at Columbia.
Detecting low levels of social tolerance in the climate of some institutions for minorities, women and students with religious differences or alternative lifestyles is often difficult. To assist parents and students in evaluating the degree of inclusivity at a university the Campus Tolerance Foundation, a nonprofit organization designed to combat racial intolerance, surveyed more than 1,000 undergraduate students at the three universities to measure the current level of inclusivity at those institutions...
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Wow...thats really ashame. The fact that it's year 2008 and ish like this still goes on? Who would have though, years ago we'd still be going through it.
