Student Experiences with Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges: Another Claim for Distinctiveness

By Paul D. Umbach, George D. Kuh. 2006

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This study explores the relationship between organizational and individual characteristics and diversity-related experiences at liberal arts colleges. Compared with their counterparts at other types of institutions, students at liberal arts colleges report more experiences with diversity. In addition, this study also finds that diversity experiences are positively related with a variety of student outcomes.

Subfields: Education, Management of Technology and Innovation, Social Psychology

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Student Involvement in Ethnic Student Organizations: Examining Civic Outcomes 6 Years After Graduation (2015, methodology): “Moreover, structural racial diversity within the student body was computed with a formula that accounted for the representation among several racial/ethnic groups (Meyer and McIntosh 1992; Umbach and Kuh 2006); we anticipated that engagement in racial/ethnic organizations may depend upon the structu”
Peers and Faculty as Predictors of Learning for Community College Students (2014, background): “…students, peer interaction with diverse others predicted student learning (Gurin et al., 2002; Hu & Kuh, 2003; Johnson et al., 2007; Lundberg, 2012; Umbach & Kuh, 2006), leadership and cultural awareness (Antonio, 2001), intellectual skills, social ability, and civic interest (Chang, Astin, & Kim,…”
Impacts of Good Practices on Cognitive Development, Learning Orientations, and Graduate Degree Plans During the First Year of College (2006, unknown): “... on task (Astin; Ethington, 1998; Hagedorn, Siadat, Nora, & Pascarella, 1997; Johnstone, Ashbaugh, & Warfield, 2002; Watson & Kuh, 1996); prompt feedback to students (d’Apollonia & Abrami, 1997; Feldman, 1997); high expectations (Arnold, Kuh, Vesper, & Schuh, 1993; Astin, 1993; Bray, Pascarella, ”
Minority student retention: Resources for practitioners (2005, background): “The study conducted by Umbach and Kuh (2003) of liberal arts colleges suggests that although these types of colleges enroll less diverse student populations than other types of colleges, diversity experiences enhance the educational experience for all students.”
Can Higher Education Meet the Needs of an Increasingly Diverse and Global Society? Campus Diversity and Cross-Cultural Workforce Competencies (2008, background): “…assertion that structural diversity is necessary to achieve these and other outcomes generally associated with diversity (D'Souza, 1991; Wood & Sherman, 2001), contending, for instance, that the same benefits can also be acquired through alternate means (Wood & Sherman, 2001; Umbach & Kuh, 2006).”
What Matters to Student Success: A Review of the Literature (2006, background): “Peer interactions are a major contributor to experiences with diversity, which can have substantial and positive effects for virtually all students and across a wide range of desirable college outcomes (Chang 1999, 2000; Gurin 1999; Hurtado et al. 1999; Orfield 2001; Umbach and Kuh 2006).”
Can 1st-Year College Students Accurately Report Their Learning and Development? (2010, background): “(Umbach & Kuh, 2006, p. 173) For college students providing self-reported gains on well-established surveys, it seems quite possible that some of these conditions—particularly, (b), (c), and (d)—are often met.”
Intercollegiate Athletes and Effective Educational Practices: Winning Combination or Losing Effort? (2006, background): “However, because students at small residential liberal arts colleges (most of which are Division III schools) generally are more engaged than students at other types of institutions (Kuh, 2003; National Survey of Student Engagement, 2003; Umbach and Kuh, 2006), Division III student-athletes are more”
What Student Affairs Professionals Need to Know About Student Engagement (2009, unknown): “…Laird, Shoup, Kuh, & Schwarz, 2008; Outcalt & Skewes-Cox, 2002; Pascarella et al., 2006; Pike, 2003, 2006a, 2006b; Pike & Kuh, 2005, 2006; Pike, Kuh, & Gonyea, 2003, 2007; Pike, Smart, Kuh, & Hayek, 2006; Umbach & Kuh, 2006; Zhao, Carini, & Kuh, 2005; Zhao & Kuh, 2004; Zhao, Kuh, & Carini, 2005).”