All 17 Uses of
diversity
in
A Hope in the Unseen
- The trios, which in past years were carefully chosen and mixed by instructors with an eye toward racial diversity, were self-selected this year by the students.†
Chpt 4
- "Yes, Cedric, they seem to be more, well, accepting of diversity," he says absently.†
Chpt 5
- It's 7:30 on Friday night, and a seminal moment of Brown's right-minded indoctrination is about to commence: the all-important diversity orientation session.†
Chpt 7
- Official title—"Community Values: Pluralism and Diversity."†
Chpt 7
- The diversity workshop is actually the second such meeting of the day.†
Chpt 7
- Rabbi Alan Flam, a university chaplain, head of Hillel (the student Jewish organization), and, for fourteen years, a facilitator of unit diversity meetings, welcomes the group as they settle into the lounge.†
Chpt 7
- But tonight's freshmen clearly have arrived knowing that the multiculturalist credo-embrace diversity so that every personal characteristic is cause for pride, not shame-has been criticized for institutionalizing divisiveness.†
Chpt 7
- Now that everyone has been through one round of finals and a revealing month at home, it's time to make some choices about who your close friends will be and how you'll define yourself under Brown's implicit guidelines, as first laid out in the diversity workshop.†
Chpt 12
- That leaves the mostly white, heterosexual guys—"the oppressor group," Cedric remembers Kim Sherman saying at the diversity workshop-who have nowhere to go.†
Chpt 12
- It is noted simply on the syllabus as "five pages, typed, double-spaced, on the topic of diversity in the classroom, using observations from each student's fieldwork.†
Chpt 12
- "Why couldn't we, for instance, write a three-act play that deals with issues of diversity in the class we're observing," says a thin white boy, one of only three guys in the class.†
Chpt 12
- Most of them are what he expected-kids lifting observations from their journals, mostly mentioning exchanges between the teachers and their students, then weaving in some footnoted passages about diversity or tracking from the three books they've had to read thus far in the semester.†
Chpt 12
- Their minds are eager, can't you see, these kids are yearning for real diversity.†
Chpt 12
- Cedric, of course, knew that the assignment was supposed' to be a dispassionate analysis of diversity in the classroom, with examples and quotes and all that, and he tried writing such a paper.†
Chpt 13
- The first step is to agree that most people share the goal of true diversity, with many races competing freely and successfully.
Chpt 14 *diversity = the condition of variety
- As an African American student "who was cutting it," as he'd say-much less the protagonist of a book many of those in corporate diversity departments had embraced-he was a prize.†
Chpt A.N.
- In February of 2001, an educational program inside the federal government, called the Department of the Interior University, created a forum to highlight "career balance and diversity."†
Chpt A.N.
Definition:
the condition of variety -- especially in reference to members of a population group who are of different races or cultures