Student panel on diversity and gender studies in the core

Last week we had a well-attended panel on the issue of diversity and gender studies in the core. One of the interesting things I heard was the pressure that student groups feel that they are responsible (implicitly) for diversity and gender education on campus, but this is something best accomplished with a trained educator. Following Derek Bok's discussion, it does make me wonder what the data says about the effects of greater support for multicultural and feminist extracurricular activities as opposed to extra resources needed by beefing up a diversity and/or gender requirement. I will follow through and report on what I find.