<p>Interestingly, Williams has been using an “I am Williams” marketing thing for quite a while, where it profiles various people in the community, through first-person narratives under this banner. Actually, I think that Williams is much further along than some of these other New England LACs in its support and inclusion of diversity. I noticed that after I graduated (a long time ago now…), all the publications I began receiving in the mail featured faces of color. There is now a beautiful Jewish center right in the middle of campus (as opposed to a small basement in a church when I was there), and so on. It was really a white, preppy place when I went (predominantly) and it has made a very conscious and deliberate effort to move away from that profile. Williams was also really smart when it went co-ed in that it eliminated frats, unlike Dartmouth, which didn’t. I remember not applying to Dartmouth specifically because of how a student told me women were treated there. This is ancient history, but I think it has had a lasting influence on campus dynamics.</p>