Skidmore College
- Diversity

Extra Points for Effort

Skidmore College is not exactly the most diverse campus, but I would certainly give it bonus points for the amount of effort they put into diversity. The student body consists mostly of rich white students, but there are students from different ethnic and economic backgrounds. In the past few years, the number of minority students have increased as well as the efforts in cultural awareness throughout the campus. The Office of Student Diversity Programs has sponsored many panels, workshops, etc. on diversity issues at Skidmore.

On the downside, the OSDP can be seen as trying a bit too hard. Sometimes it feels as though the diversity issue is really shoved down everyone's throats. Diversity can lead to a heated debate at Skidmore, and it will interesting to see how Skidmore handles it in the coming years as the student body becomes increasingly diverse.

Skidmore is largely democratic, and there are a few religious groups on campus. The student body is generally very accepting regardless of sexual orientation, ethnic/racial identity, economic background, political beliefs or religion.

Reasonable

The majority is definitely upper middle class white kids. There are a number of ethnic students, students of different religions, and gay and transgendered students as well. The school really tries to keep things diverse, but sometimes it gets to the point where it seems like they are singling out the minorities because they are trying so celebrate diversity too much!

Skidmore Diversity

In terms of race and ethnicity, I believe that the school is pretty mixed and there are a growing number of international students, but there is still a majority of white, American students. I've been to discussion and it seems that a lot of minority students have trouble finding true acceptance-- in whatever identity they possess in the agent group-- but that I believe our school is becoming more aware and open towards these issues of acceptance. There is little diversity in race among the faculty, I might add.