Minority Students Face More Discrimination on Low-Diversity Campuses, Report Says

August 10, 2012
The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Timothy Sandoval

Students from minority racial and ethnic groups at colleges where minorities are underrepresented experience more stereotyping, harassment, and other forms of discrimination than those on campuses that are more diverse, according to a recent report from the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles.
The report, a research brief titled "The Climate for Underrepresented Groups and Diversity on Campus," notes that many students now believe that racial discrimination is no longer a major problem, but it warns that a number of recent highly publicized race-related incidents on campuses demonstrate that challenges still exist.

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