College is supposed to be a place to experience diversity and learn about physical and academic world beyond one's childhood home. But meeting different people and being to respectfully interact with them, are two very different things. That is why this fall, new students at Clark University in Massachusetts will learn about respecting differences as part of its orientation program. The University calls these unintended slights "microagressions," or comments based on people's membership in a specific marginalized group.
Read more about what Clark and other universities are doing here in this New York Times article.
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