It was the heart of the college football Bowl Championship Series last month, when approximately 150 cleans, faculty and administrators from prominent business schools gathered in New York for Ernst & Young's Campus Diversity and Inclusiveness Roundtable. So when Ernst & Young chief Jim Turley amended the introduction of a participant from Ohio State University to include the popular football-related prefix "The," a knowing chuckle ran through the Sheraton business suite. The rest of the discussion was less lighthearted, though. The audience appeared committed to changing the historic homogeneity of the profession. As a college football fan, I saw an immediate parallel. The attendees' calls for accountability when it comes to fostering diversity in firms echo similar complaints about the BCS selection process.
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