All the candidates for the top job were white men, and G.E. has acknowledged that its diversity efforts have lagged.

Many consultants recommend that companies broaden their diversity efforts to include people with disabilities explicitly.

The harshest assessments of Trinity's diversity efforts have come from its own students.

Mr. Cox said the diversity effort has changed the museum's audience.

The soccer federation must also improve its diversity efforts and learn how to market the game better to various ethnic groups, Curry said.

"It was nice to finally team up with him like we did on the Nascar side in our diversity efforts," Gibbs said of White.

"It's gotten to the point where the law school's diversity efforts are to eliminate everyone from the mainstream," he said.

But, the outcomes of diversity efforts have varied across pay grade levels and occupational categories.

The inference is that if self-segregation exists, a university's diversity efforts are less than successful.

She also led the diversity effort at the organization's worldwide headquarters.