Diversity At Transy: An Intertextual Analysis

Being a first-year student at Transylvania University, during the months that I have spent on and around campus, I’ve realised an idea about our campus community which I think could cause anyone to wonder. Like most colleges or universities, it seems as if one of Transy’s main goal for the body of students is to have diversity. In other words, being diverse is one thing our administrative campus community claim to be. However, what seems to be the issue about this is that Transy is considered “diverse” to some, but to others it’s not. The word “diversity” or being “diverse” can be defined in many different ways—these ways could be influenced by our backgrounds, statuses, experiences and at times, even the way we identify ourselves racially. …show more content…
It could range from the school’s tuition fitting their budget, the amount of students who already attend the school, the academic style of the school, and so on. Focusing on prospective students, however, when going through the process of figuring out whether they would like to be a future student at Transy, the admissions staffs and ambassadors at Transy play a big role in showcasing Transy and showing that it is worthy of being a school a student would want to attend. With this being a big deal, you would expect the people involved in showcasing Transy to do the best they can to make sure that prospective students get the right idea to further make their decision about attending Transy. The expectations you would set is that they make sure they let the incoming students know as much facts about Transy that they …show more content…
Would that change the way students perceive Transy before coming in? How about when they are officially students of Transy? Maybe, it would. All along, my goal was to explain how our definition of something could be different from the next person, and in this scenario, it is the definition of diversity. If incoming students and present students of Transy are given a clear meaning of what Transy’s administrative staff mean when they say “Transy is a diverse school”, this could make a big difference. Do they mean Transy have numerous amount of students who have distincts backgrounds, many students majoring in different areas of study, many buildings with interesting art sense, or many linguistic talented students? Or something else? It wouldn’t hurt for them to come out and say what they mean when they classify Transy as diverse. It would save a whole lot of misinterpretations, misclassification and issues that could come up with the student body about whether or not they can really tell an incoming student what the true embodiment is of