[Ellery]

I Figure I might as well add my 2 cents in this conversation to compliment what Ed has mentioned earlier. Diversity is just another term to promote a non-stagnant culture. It does not necessarily mean purely gender or race either.

I know Xerox is one of the most diversified companies out there and to that end is one of our strengths due to the many new creative ideas brought from all parts of the world. So in brining this to our team it's one of our strengths. Sure we'd love to match the makeup of our school but it's hard to add specific aspects if you can't get any applicants in that area. Another way we focus on in our team is to make sure that students are balanced from Freshmen to senior year as well. (that helps balance th egraduating class each year to make recruting more consistent.)

The key is to provide the opportunity to those you are lacking in. That's all you can do. If they don't jump on board there's nothing wrong with filling it up with whomever applied. You just have to make that extra effort to diversify but don't blind yourself to the concept. Our team make up is pretty unique but as Ed mentioned before the Rochester City School District only has a 51% graduating to college percentage and typically 95% of all our students from the last 15 years have all gone to college. Believe me we're not specifically here for the straight A students. It's the ones who aren't motivated enough to even go to class that we try to enlist to partner up with the straight A students we do have.

For those who complain about minority benefits, I can assure you as an asian minority growing up in NYC. I didn't get any benefits in my lifetime yet, so don't throw that "minority" term around loosely since it is not all encompassing.