It also undermines the purpose of a college education: exposing students to clashing ideas.
"Exposing students at this level to the theater experience is creating a new audience," he said.
Business schools can help by exposing students to as many different and even conflicting ideas as possible.
Exposing students to slave re-enactments, Mr. Jackson said, would be like throwing a match into gasoline.
In addition to exposing students to the creative entrepreneurial mind-set like this in classroom settings, Ms. Salti of Injaz believes that awareness must be generated.
They include actively recruiting students, broadening the scope of early coursework to include the wider applications of computer science and exposing students to successful female role models.
"There may be value to exposing students to this type of instruction," said Mr. Belluscio, whose group offers Webinars for school board members.
His effort to inspire comic voices at Southampton, also involved exposing students to his unique range of comic influences as a cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter.
But simply exposing students to international experiences does not necessarily mean that they will develop a better understanding of other cultures.
Social conservatives, the critics argue, have tried to use the "strengths and weaknesses" standard to justify exposing students to religious objections in the guise of scientific discourse.
One of the great failures of American universities is that they are far too parochial, rarely exposing students to worlds beyond our borders.
