Higher Education Diversity needs efforts

Lixian Huang

Oct 4^th. 2015

Week 3 Blog

ASA 2, A03

In the article “Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in California: How Higher Education Diversity Benefits Our Communities”, the author addresses that the Affirmative Action is welcomed by the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. The article mentions that many AAPI are not well-represented, which is then partially affirmed by the comparatively low admission ratio of AAPI to the White from the freshmen admission rate data among the UC system and the UC Berkeley. Several benefits of higher education diversity such as increasing positive intergroup attitudes and better cognitive skills development are raised. Admittedly, universities need to react to balance their racial diversity; however, to maintain such diversity, some AAPI faculties also need to change their attitudes. In some classes I have taken, several AAPI faculties/teaching assistances were so  warm to the non-AAPI students instead of the students who had the same race as them. Such faculties can be really patient to the continuing-asking-question non-AAPIs, but unwilling to answer even one question in details for the AAPIs. What I experienced truly surprised me, because I formerly thought that people in the same race tended to help each other more—but everything turned out to be the opposite.

Question: What should people in different positions do to gain the higher education diversity?ion need to react to balance their racial diversity; however, to mantain the UC Berkeley.ommunities"