What Would Life Be Without Diversity Programmes?

What would life be without Diversity Programmes? For most of us, college life may not be significantly different – we would still interact with people from other social groups, and I believe Amherst will still aspire to be ‘diverse’. However, we would definitely have a much limited capacity in reaching out to shyer applicants unsure about their place in Amherst, which is still often characterised as school that caters to a select kind of person.

Besides, what does ‘diversity’ actually mean anyway? With the #OscarsSoWhite backlash and the announcement of new racially and bodily-representative Barbie dolls, diversity has been increasingly thrown around as a buzzword. For myself, I have definitely struggled with what it means to be ‘diverse’.