Welcome to the Diversity Research Group
home of
The Ethnography of Diversity Project
and
Diversity at Mason
Latest issue!! Student Research on Student Identity (text) (cover)
George Mason is a highly diverse institution, and it is diverse in unusual ways. It is also marked by a history of collaboration across instructional, student affairs, and institutional support sectors. What better location from which to consider the impact of diversity on higher education?
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The Diversity Research Group consists of university faculty, staff, students, and administrators interested in the impact of diversity on higher education. The group has been meeting once-a-semester since Spring 2004. Participants come from across the university -- Institutional Research, Institutional Assessment, the Office of the Provost, many offices in University Life, the Writing Center, as well as faculty from Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Education, English, the Graduate School of Education, the Higher Education Program, Psychology, Public and International Affairs, and Sociology.
Over the years, members of the group have conducted focus group sessions with students, analyzed institutional data, offered panels and workshos at professional meetings, published professional papers, investigated the prospects of collaborative research with other universities, and shared information with one another.
To learn more about the Diversity Research Group, the Ethnography of Diversity Project, or Diversity at Mason, contact Professor Karen Rosenblum, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, krosenbl@gmu.edu.
Updated: 9/2009