Thursday, April 29, 2010

Diversity Starts at the Top

The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 28, 2010, 06:23 PM ET
By Libby Sander

Amid the scattered predictions of who might be chosen as the next NCAA president was a fervent hope among some in college sports that the association's next leader would be a woman or a minority. That didn't happen.
But for Dennis E. Thomas, the commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a league of Division I historically black colleges, the important thing, he said, was that the selection process was fair.
"If I thought that it was a closed process, then I would be jumping up and down off this table," Mr. Thomas said in a telephone interview from his Virginia Beach office. "But I don't think it was."

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