University of Delaware
Official Student Handbook 1995-1996

University of Delaware Positions on Multicultural Education and
Cultural Diversity

Multicultural Education is the process designed to foster
understanding, tolerance, and cooperative relations among people of
different cultural groups. The aim of multicultural education is to
affirm, acknowledge, and recognize cultural diversity as a catalyst
for mutuality of respect, regardless of one's racial, ethnic or
cultural background.

Cultural Diversity is the affirmation and recognition of America as
a nation of people from distant shores, dedicated to preserving and
extending the ideals of a cultural democracy. As an institution of
higher education, the University of Delaware serves as a cooperative
agency in promoting and supporting the process of multicultural
education. Effective and reciprocal relations between people of
different cultures and ethnicity are sought through understanding,
mutuality of respect, and dedication to the development of a diversity-
friendly community beneficial to all students and University
personnel.

These position statements were developed by Dr. James E. Newton,
Professor, Black American Studies, at the request of the University.