COLLEGE PROFESSOR: I'm not just a diversity number. I remember -- way back in the early 1980's -- hiring two three women engineers who soon proved to be outstanding employees. Then in the mid-1980's when diversity programs reared their ugly heads, they were appalled, then angered, that they might soon be thought of as 'diversity' hires.

The diversity problem isn't new, but it is good that it is being recognized in the very environment that gave it birth.