About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience

The following questions were taken from the Web site Y? (yforum.com), created by the National Forum on People's Differences. The forum, designed to promote open dialogue about our differences, allows individuals to ask and answer questions about people who are from other ethnic, cultural, or religious backgrounds or who are in other ways different from themselves. The site has received numerous awards and has been widely recognized as an outstanding tool for teaching tolerance.

Today's students, technologically savvy from an early age, expect technical sophistication from their campuses and curricula. Higher education must keep pace with new technologies while addressing the policy issues that they inevitably raise.

Looking for insights into what makes for a challenging and supportive learning environment? Try the bookshelf of almost any nine-year-old.

A critical first step before engaging in any assessment is to consider the politics. What are the needs and interests of the groups involved? What kind of information are people ready to learn about and interested in? Who should be involved and when? The authors explore these and other questions.