[ttronicm]

If the list is a source for recruiting, I don't see it as being all that different from recruiting from a predominantly female college. No one says that's a bad thing.

Here's a real-world situation from a previous job of mine: We hired heavily from a local college. Hiring there became a habit as the candidates we got were qualified and well suited for the jobs available. As it turns out, that school is VERY white. We were always hiring "the best candidate", we just weren't hiring from a big enough pool for that to be sufficient to create diversity.

A lack of diversity is a business problem with negative business impact. I'm not going to defend that; that there a people who can't imagine why diversity is a business advantage boggles my mind.

It's a hard problem to solve. Please keep working at it.