NY Times - Colleges Find Diversity Is Not Just Numbers
Most everyone agrees that Dartmouth has a lot of work ahead of it. The drive [for greater diversity and understanding between races] here was inspired in part by an internal report last year telling of many minority students who over the years actually "felt damaged" by the climate at the college. Just four years ago, a Dartmouth fraternity and sorority prompted an outcry on campus after having "a ghetto party" at which students dressed in so-called inner city clothes.
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This year, Dartmouth's incoming freshman class consists of about 30 percent minority students, the most diverse group in the college's history, with 13 percent Asian, 7 percent Hispanic, nearly 7 percent black and 3 percent Native American.
This is a great step forward for Dartmouth which does need a focus on diversity and greater understanding between the races.
Dartmouth has ranked high in minority representation among the Ivy League schools for several years running, and I usually use that as a selling point when conducting alumni interviews. I'm disappointed to learn from this article that Dartmouth is a leader in numbers, but not in spirit.