'Why has diversity on campus usually been cast in terms of race rather than class?

America, through a terrible history, has a fascination for race and tends to be in denial about economic differences, or assumes that people are at the economic levels that they deserve. Yet it's impossible to argue that a really smart poor kid deserves to be poor because they were born poor.'

... What effect do you hope to have on the biggest names in higher education, like Harvard?

We can create pressure on the larger Ivy institutions with tremendous resources [Spell it out, baby: THIRTY-FIVE BILLION DOLLARS.] to take this issue more seriously. Harvard's level of economic diversity is roughly half that of Amherst's.