The educational experiences available in cultural diversity and aging are almost as diverse as the elders themselves. Faculty in many disciplines have found many different ways to try to prepare students to meet the challenges of an increasingly heterogeneous population of older adults. The realizations that elders from populations defined officially as minorities will probably be one-third of older Americans by the middle of the 21st century (Federal Interagency Forum on Aging Related Statistics, 2000), that there is vast diversity within each of these populations and within the White majority, and that there are unique cultural needs and issues associated with each group have prompted …