Diversity is not simply a matter of the changing demographics in students or faculty. Attending to it has also altered the very knowledge base upon which the intellectual integrity of the academy rests. Institutions across the country are taking advantage of the explosion of new scholarship about the diversity of cultural traditions and histories in America and around the world. Diversity has also provided additional interpretive lenses through which to analyze ideas and society.

In response to this intellectual change, college courses today offer students a deeper, fuller, and more challenging picture, which better prepares them for increasingly complex and diverse communities and workplaces. It also equips students with new modes of understanding and means of approaching any issue. This section of DiversityWeb focuses on how institutions have integrated diversity across the curriculum at multiple levels. Resources include principles and practices that are guiding many of these changes, various kinds of diversity requirements, revised general education models and courses, advanced courses on U.S. and global pluralism, traditional disciplinary majors that systematically address diversity, and new interdisciplinary programs.