All of the audience members believed that a more diverse campus would lead to a better community in the long run. Similarly, all of the participants strongly favored the idea that students should attend university in order to attain a more cultured education, and for the opportunities to interact with a wider range of cultures. With regard to creating housing that is more conducive to forming diverse living spaces, 100% of the participants agreed that reorganizing the housing system would benefit the campus as a whole. Having said this, it was also agreed upon at many points during the discussion, that the cost of renovation may be the core issue preventing a university from implementing such a process. One question nearly equally divided participants between agreement and disagreement. Penn State should enforce mandatory events about inclusion on campus. 40% of the participants somewhat agreed 10% of the participants remained neutral 50% of the participants somewhat disagreed Despite this divided array of results, about 50% of the participants who left additional comments desired for more citizens in their community to out of their comfort zone and “break attend a new such mandatory events would help to solve this problem. When event.” Creating asked to explain what they had learned from attending the deliberation, nearly 80% of those who answered, said that they thought of housing as a key component of this issue. One hadn’t participant noted that she used to think of a solution to increasing diversity on campus as “purely [related to] affirmative action, but now [she] realizes that a more it’s dynamic problem.” Statement Strongly Somewhat Neutral Somewhat Strongly agree agree disagree disagree Students tend to surround themselves 50% 50% with students alike, rather than venture out to new cultural communities. Support of inclusive diversity will, in the 100% long run, enhance our community. Admissions should provide financial aid 10% 20% 60% 10% to certain students to enhance campus diversity regardless of their academic skill.
All of the audience members believed that a more diverse campus would lead to a better community in the long run. Similarly, all of the participants strongly favored the idea that students should attend university in order to attain a more cultured education, and for the opportunities to interact with a wider range of cultures. With regard to creating housing that is more conducive to forming diverse living spaces, 100% of the participants agreed that reorganizing the housing system would benefit the campus as a whole. Having said this, it was also agreed upon at many points during the discussion, that the cost of renovation may be the core issue preventing a university from implementing such a process. One question nearly equally divided participants between agreement and disagreement. Penn State should enforce mandatory events about inclusion on campus. 40% of the participants somewhat agreed 10% of the participants remained neutral 50% of the participants somewhat disagreed Despite this divided array of results, about 50% of the participants who left additional comments desired for more citizens in their community to “break out of their comfort zone and attend a new event.” Creating such mandatory events would help to solve this problem. When asked to explain what they had learned from attending the deliberation, nearly 80% of those who answered, said that they hadn’t thought of housing as a key component of this issue. One participant noted that she used to think of a solution to increasing diversity on campus as “purely [related to] affirmative action, but now [she] realizes that it’s a more dynamic problem.” Statement Strongly agree Somewhat agree Neutral Somewhat disagree Strongly disagree Students tend to surround themselves with students alike, rather than venture out to new cultural communities. 50% 50% Support of inclusive diversity will, in the long run, enhance our community. 100% Admissions should provide financial aid to certain students to enhance campus diversity regardless of their academic skill. 10% 20% 60% 10%
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