BURTON: College brochures misrepresent minority students
Every year, colleges and universities across the nation release brochures and annual reports for the public discussing the benefits of attending their particular school. These institutions mail them to prospective students, employees and donors every year with information about how the school ranks among other institutions, upcoming alumni events or about the new projects that the university will be participating in. Although the content inside the brochures is ever changing, the photo on the front remains the same. In this picture, there are various minority faces, showing exceptional diversity. Honestly, if college campuses were as diverse as the brochures, this debate would not even be occurring. The use of these photographs is a complete misrepresentation of diversity; in actuality, the brochures are blatantly exploiting minorities for personal gain. These photos over-represent the number of minorities that are actually on campuses, which is a distortion of diversity.