The civil unrest of the previous decade had finally settled down, the student body was growing larger and more diverse, the university had changed its applications process to a double-blind procedure with no special consideration for gender, race, or ethnicity, and research in medicine and the physical sciences shared space in the curriculum with philosophy and art.
He told Sunday's rally in Bradford that his 85% share of the vote in the city's diverse university ward showed he had support of people of all races and religions.
Awuah says the university brings together a diverse mix of students from different backgrounds, including scholarship-winning undergraduates from humble beginnings who are the first in their families to attend college.
Another upside to owning property in a college town--even for those home owners who are not affiliated with the nearby college or university--is that the local school districts may have a diverse student population because of the academic community.
Egypt's foreign minister warned that Syria was reaching a point of no return, an opinion echoed by such diverse Egyptian institutions as al-Azhar University and the cineastes union.
Then there is the argument, put forward by David Llewellyn, professor of banking at Loughborough University, that allowing the mutuals to die out will mean a less diverse range of institutions offering savings and mortgages, leading to weaker competition and so to higher prices.
Houston is the fastest-growing and most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the country, says Stephen Klineberg, co-director of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
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Scientists at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute and the University College London Cancer Institute have been trying to crack how cancers become so diverse in the first place.
At Columbia, we just completed the second year of a fellowship program, in partnership with Cambridge University and the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, that uses social entrepreneurship to reconcile diverse groups.
Dr Jakob Vinther, of the University of Bristol, agrees: "The fact they were having a diverse diet of both small and large dinosaurs and primitive birds could suggest that they were not specialist predators but more likely a scavenger - a sort of vulture".
The city has surpassed New York as the country's most racially and ethnically diverse, according to a study last year by Rice University.
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