Diversity Appreciation among White First-Year Residential Students

In this study, the authors explored diversity appreciation among White first-year residential students (n = 1,617) using residential curriculum survey data from a large public university in the Southeast. The regression analysis explained 11% of the variance in diversity appreciation among White undergraduate respondents (p < 0.001). Open-ended text analysis using Leximancer yielded six major themes related to White first-year residential student diversity appreciation: difference or diversity, students, awareness, learning, friends, and country.