Examining College Students’ Multicultural Education Perspectives

This survey study examines the multicultural educational perspectives of 729 college students. Results indicated that the differences on multicultural attitude/beliefs and knowledge between female and male students, younger and older students, ethnic groups (White and Black students), and religions and non-religious. Students who had previously taken a course that addressed multicultural issues had higher mean scores on the multicultural knowledge scale than those who did not take a class. Results also indicated that White and Black students were statistically different on multicultural attitude and belief as well as on multicultural background and awareness.