- Students learn better in a diverse educational environment. Students educated in a diverse environment are better prepared to become active participants in a democratic society even after leaving the educational setting.
- Students learn more and think in deeper more complex ways in diverse educational environment.
- Students who experienced the most racial/ethnic diversity in class and informally showed greatest engagement in active thinking processes, growth in intellectual engagement, and motivation and growth in intellectual and academic skills.
- Students with most diversity experiences during college had most cross-racial interactions 5 years after leaving college. Structural diversity had positive effects on classroom diversity and interactional diversity among all students.
- Interaction with diverse peers was more consistently influential than classroom diversity for learning outcomes of African Americans.