Brief I: Hurtado and Alexander
In an increasingly multicultural world, there were arising issues concerning diversity in higher education. Race, gender, socio-economics, and the list goes on. Hurtado’s “Linking Diversity with the Educational and Civil Missions of Higher Education” promotes diversity and civic initiates to go together in order to prepare undergraduate students for an even more global and integrated world in the future. Alexander’s “A Clean Sweep” narrates her difficult but persevering journey through college where she was severely discriminated against because of her race and gender.
Hurtado provides three types of rationale to support her statement: practical, theoretical, and empirical. In a nation where differences between …show more content…
She was discriminated mainly because she was colored. No girl in any of her class would talk to her and the first one who did tried to copy her examination. This reveals how racist and prejudiced people of the time were. She was completely isolated from other students. Even Dining halls and restaurants on campus wouldn’t serve her so she was forced to bring her own lunch box everyday for the next three years. This demonstrates how determined and persistent Alexander was in order to reach her goal. During the next year, she made friends with mostly other colored people and she also met her husband. This indicates that the university was beginning to become a bit more diverse and it was admitting people of other races into the school. Despites the many challenges she faced, Alexander focused on her studies and she received grades that made all her peers jealous. She even received a recognition from the Dean for making Distinguished in every courses she took in 1918. She earned a graduate scholarship upon graduation in just three years. Her success illustrates that it is possible to achieve one’s dreams despite what other people say or think. One shouldn’t give in to others’ expectation and persevere to get to their goals.
Ultimately, the two articles are both about diversity in the higher education environment. Hurtado discusses the many benefits of incorporating
In an increasingly multicultural world, there were arising issues concerning diversity in higher education. Race, gender, socio-economics, and the list goes on. Hurtado’s “Linking Diversity with the Educational and Civil Missions of Higher Education” promotes diversity and civic initiates to go together in order to prepare undergraduate students for an even more global and integrated world in the future. Alexander’s “A Clean Sweep” narrates her difficult but persevering journey through college where she was severely discriminated against because of her race and gender.
Hurtado provides three types of rationale to support her statement: practical, theoretical, and empirical. In a nation where differences between …show more content…
She was discriminated mainly because she was colored. No girl in any of her class would talk to her and the first one who did tried to copy her examination. This reveals how racist and prejudiced people of the time were. She was completely isolated from other students. Even Dining halls and restaurants on campus wouldn’t serve her so she was forced to bring her own lunch box everyday for the next three years. This demonstrates how determined and persistent Alexander was in order to reach her goal. During the next year, she made friends with mostly other colored people and she also met her husband. This indicates that the university was beginning to become a bit more diverse and it was admitting people of other races into the school. Despites the many challenges she faced, Alexander focused on her studies and she received grades that made all her peers jealous. She even received a recognition from the Dean for making Distinguished in every courses she took in 1918. She earned a graduate scholarship upon graduation in just three years. Her success illustrates that it is possible to achieve one’s dreams despite what other people say or think. One shouldn’t give in to others’ expectation and persevere to get to their goals.
Ultimately, the two articles are both about diversity in the higher education environment. Hurtado discusses the many benefits of incorporating