At our University the term is identified with the promotion of black students' concerns. Evidence is visible in the Diversity Task Force. This Task force was created, in part, to address the Black Student Alliance's accusations last spring of racial bias in the honor system. The commonly accepted definition of diversity is too rigid. In fact, the true definition of diversity should not involve skin color.
Diversity is the interaction of different ideas and perspectives.
These ideas do not originate from external traits, but from beliefs independent of superficial characteristics. When people say that society must promote diversity, they mean that society must promote minority concerns. King affirmed this position in her speech. Her approach to diversity involved increasing minority scholarships, increasing the number of tenured minority professors and placing more minorities in high-level administrative positions within the University. This type of diversity is not the answer to America's problems.