About Us
The Diversity Research Group consists of university faculty, staff, graduate 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 Assessment, Institutional Research, the Office of the Provost, many offices in University Life, the Student Media Group, the Writing Center, as well as faculty from Anthropology, Communication, 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 workshops at professional meetings, published professional papers, investigated the prospects of collaborative research with other universities, and shared information with one another. Thanks to support from the Offices of University Life, the DRG has pursued research on the experience of Mason students who are the children of immigrants, collected student reflections on diversity, and explored how students from varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds recreate their identities as writers in the US academy.
If you have questions about the Diversity Research Group or are interested in participating, please contact Karen Rosenblum.