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When I mentioned the word "diversity" over ten years ago, most people said, "What's that?" Now we hear the word a lot, so much so that some people call it "the 'D' word." In the college course that I teach on "Managing a Diverse Workforce," students come to the first class either not really understanding what diversity is or thinking they know quite a bit about it. Often they say that after even the first class, they realized that diversity is much bigger than they had originally thought.
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