Diversity at our company has an explicit definition. It means women, plus latino and blacks of any gender (including mixed race with a parent of such a background). That is probably not what people think of as diversity in a broad sense, but it is likely what most universities and corporations mean. And black here does not mean African-American, it means someone with African ancestry.

They usually qualify diversity as "under-represented minorities". You have to be both a minority in the classic sense as well as under-represented.

All colleges, especially graduate schools, are working tirelessly to recruit based on skin-color, as such diversity is now a significant component of the US News Rankings.

As with everything else in his purview, Mr. Jackson only sees this issue in black and white.