{"id":3185,"date":"2009-10-30T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T19:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2017-06-22T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T15:06:24","slug":"diversity-at-sinclair-an-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2009\/10\/30\/diversity-at-sinclair-an-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity at Sinclair: An Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ethnicity<\/a>American Indian.\u00a0 Asian.\u00a0 Hispanic.\u00a0 Caucasian.\u00a0 Pacific Island.\u00a0 African American.<\/p>\n

Sinclair Community College has students of many ethnicities, religions and cultures.\u00a0 Some of Sinclair\u2019s students are nonresident aliens, and others are applying for their citizenship.\u00a0 So what do people at Sinclair have to say about diversity?<\/p>\n

Khalfan Abdulrahman, a Nursing student from Kenya, thinks that people at Sinclair need to be more aware of the variety of cultures around them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Sinclair is not as diverse (as universities are), but it can be,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cThere are (international) students here, but it\u2019s not a big number.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of Sinclair\u2019s 25,345 students enrolled this fall, only 144 students\u20140.02 percent\u2014are classified as nonresident aliens or foreign students, according to Sinclair\u2019s Office of Research, Analytics and Reporting.\u00a0 However, this number is not an exact count of students from other countries, according to the department\u2019s manager Karl Konsdorf.<\/p>\n

Abdullah Johnson, advisor for the Muslim Student Alliance, believes that students should be open-minded to understanding the lifestyles of others around them.\u00a0 Michael McBride, a member of the Native American Cultural Club, believes that racism is still a problem in America.\u00a0 Both men said they have experienced discrimination because of their culture.<\/p>\n

Diversity is a part of life for many students at Sinclair.\u00a0 Because of this the Clarion<\/em> will report on student experiences regarding immigration, racism and religion in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American Indian.\u00a0 Asian.\u00a0 Hispanic.\u00a0 Caucasian.\u00a0 Pacific Island.\u00a0 African American. Sinclair Community College has students of many ethnicities, religions and cultures.\u00a0 Some of Sinclair\u2019s students are nonresident aliens, and others are applying for their citizenship.\u00a0 So what do people at Sinclair have to say about diversity? Khalfan Abdulrahman, a Nursing student from Kenya, thinks that people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[764,765,1976],"class_list":["post-3185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-diversity","tag-ethnicity","tag-meagan-ewton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-Pn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}