Why Are Findings on Perceptions and Attitudes Irrelevant to Both Experiences with Diversity and Educational Outcomes?
Dr. Gurin s testimony did not cover perceptions of racial climate or policy attitudes because they do not tell anything about students own experiences or about their educational outcomes. Moreover, perceptions of racial climate cannot be used as proxies for students own experiences. The Michigan Student Study shows this dramatically with two sets of questions asked of students in their senior year. One asks them the extent to which a set of racial climate phrases applies to the University of Michigan. Over one-quarter (27%) of the white students responded that there was quite a bit or a great deal of interracial tension on campus. Yet, when asked to characterize their own relationships with students of other racial backgrounds only 1% to 7% of the white students said that their own relationships with Latino(a), Asian American, and African American students were tense, somewhat hostile interactions, or guarded and cautious. • To assess students experiences with diversity, you have to as
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