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DOI：
10.1080/1066568990320207
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发表时间：
1999
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P. Gurin
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高等教育机构首先有义务为年轻人创造最好的教育环境，因为他们的生活在校园里可能会发生重大变化。各机构的具体目标可能各不相同，但所有努力都必须针对确保为这些处于发展关键阶段的年轻人提供最佳教育环境，这将为他们如何度过他们的生活奠定基础。大多数学院和大学，当然还有密歇根大学，都有一个共同的目标，那就是让年轻人为积极参与我们这个日益多样化的民主社会做好准备。正如美国学院和大学协会在1995年所指出的那样，高等教育既有独特的责任，也有开创先例的挑战。高等教育凭借其使命、价值观和对学习的奉献精神，具有独特的定位，即培养和滋养美国人在日常生活中使多样性发挥作用所需要的心灵和思想习惯。我们有机会帮助我们的校园体验跨越差异的参与，这是一种价值和公益。我们国家的校园已经成为一个非常显眼的舞台，在这个舞台上，关于差异、平等和社区的最基本问题正在被制定出来。对于这一充满希望也充满困难的努力，学院带来了不可或缺的资源：它对知识进步的承诺，以及它作为增加洞察力和理解的关键的跨越差异的对话和审议的传统。（1995，第16页）
Institutions of higher education have an obligation, first and foremost, to create the best possible educational environment for the young adults whose lives are likely to be significantly changed during their years on campus. Specific objectives may vary from one institution to another, but all efforts must be directed to ensuring an optimal educational environment for these young people who are at a critical stage of development that will complete the foundation for how they will conduct their lives. One goal embraced by most colleges and universities, and certainly by the University of Michigan, is to prepare young people for active participation in our democratic society, which is an increasingly diverse society. As stated by the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 1995, higher education has both a distinctive responsibility and a precedent setting challenge. Higher education is uniquely positioned, by its mission, values, and dedication to learning, to foster and nourish the habits of heart and mind that Americans need to make diversity work in daily life. We have the opportunity to help our campuses experience engagement across differences as a value and a public good. Our nation's campuses have become a highly visible stage on which the most fundamental questions about difference, equality, and community are being enacted. To this effort, filled with promise and fraught with difficulty, the academy brings indispensable resources: its commitments to the advancement of knowledge and its traditions of dialogue and deliberation across difference as keys to the increase of insight and understanding.(1995, p. xvi)