Domestic students of color attending the University of Illinois during 2011- 2012 were surveyed about their experiences of microaggressions on campus. Of the 4800 who participated,”[t]hirty-nine percent (39%) of the students of color who responded to the survey reported feeling uncomfortable on campus because of their race. . . . Over half of participants (51 percent) reported experiences of stereotyping in the classroom. About a third (27 percent) of the students of color reported feeling that their contributions in different learning contexts were minimized and that they were made to feel inferior because of the way they spoke. Additionally, a quarter (25 percent) of students of color reported feeling that they were not taken seriously in class because of their race.”
