University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Racial Segregation in the Dormatories

Fazeel, Muhammed; Lewandowski, Adam; Wheelock, Kevin

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Title
Racial Segregation in the Dormatories
Author(s)
  • Fazeel, Muhammed
  • Lewandowski, Adam
  • Wheelock, Kevin
Issue Date
2011-08
Keyword(s)
  • Dorm
  • Segregation
  • Race
  • Ethnicity
Abstract
We researched the topic of racial segregation in dorms at the University of Illinois. Our observations told us that FAR/PAR is primarily occupied by minorities while the six pack is occupied by whites. We heard the student’s perspectives on living in separate dorms than people from other regions and the effects on their social life to see if their opinions match up with our observations. We found out more about the process of how students have ended up in their respective dorms, especially if they specifically chose where they wanted to live. We assumed that most students came to the university to study and grow as individuals, by promoting students’ interactions with each other; the learning experience can improve exponentially.
Series/Report Name or Number
  • RHET105 Section B4C3 (Race and Ethnicity at UIUC)
  • Professor Thomas Herakovich
  • In this Rhetoric 105 class students were expected to: 1. develop skills as readers and writers by reading and writing sophisticated prose, including ethnographic papers/books/articles and research papers/journals/books/articles; 2. experience writing as a process of revision and collaboration, where longer, more complex pieces grow out of earlier work—ideas, collaboration, field notes, summaries, abstracts, data tables, charts, and graphs; 3. reflect and analyze conventional and personal reading and writing processes as readers and writers while reading, writing about, and discussing the texts of the course: published work, peers’ work, as well as personal work; 4. become more practiced at using writing as a means of investigation, writing as an early strategy for discovering and for answering questions, thus challenging the commonplace belief that all writing is designed to prove something once and for all; 5. identify and connect the intellectual and philosophical insights that arise when reading and writing personal and ethnographic essays, to the contexts of our day to day lives; 6. accomplish 1-5 above within a course context dedicated to investigating Race and Ethnicity here at UIUC and elsewhere through theorizing and practicing the art of writing and critiquing personal, ethnographic, academic papers, and various forms of data presentation.
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Diversity on Campus/Equity and Access PRIMARY
This collection examines ways in which the U.S. university and the American college experience are affected by diversity, and difference. In particular, these student projects examine experiences of diversity on campus, including important contemporary social, cultural, and political debates on equity and access to university resources.