No art institution in the city has been more diversity-conscious than this one.
But it is often perceived as exclusive, so firms may prefer other forms of social activity in today's diversity-conscious climate, reckons Susan Amey, of the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler business school.
According to the EHRC report, Sex and Power 2011, since 2003 women held just 10.2% of all senior posts in business, 15.1% in media and culture, 26.2% in politics and – in what is meant to be a diversity-conscious public sector – just 26.1%.
Many Syrians, sensitive to their own religious and ethnic diversity and conscious of sectarian mayhem next-door in Iraq, have reacted passively to their government's latest crackdown.
Theirs is a revolution born of great pain and frustration, but also increasingly fueled by witty humor, joy and a stubbornness that insists on the celebration of life and Sudan's diversity, in conscious and dramatic contrast to the violence and inhumanity of the regime of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
The ensuing complaints are "simply passed on" instead of being seen for what they are: a red flag that the community, and especially the school board, needs more conscious diversity training and open dialogue.
"I wanted to see it through to the end and show my support," said Gui. "I am in support of diversity and race-conscious admissions.
Nearly a half-century after Brown v. Board of Education, at a time when both the courts and the voters have turned against affirmative action, the question of whether the educational value of diversity justifies race-conscious policies in public schools is an open one, never directly addressed by the United States Supreme Court.
Consumer choice, especially when it leads to greater patient satisfaction and improved health care, is another reason for diversity and race-conscious programs in medical school admissions.
The portraits were commissioned – paid for by the Vice-Chancellor's Diversity Fund – in a conscious determination to widen Oxford's representation of itself in its public spaces.
When the Women On 20s selection committee compiled their list of female candidates, they were conscious of diversity, but they did not set out to fill any particular quota, Stone says.
