But Harvey notes that writing is a field that allows students to see past color.
"Writing crosses racial lines in a lot of ways," he says. "We have a very open and generous faculty."
But when one or two people are not like the others, it is virtually impossible for them to go unnoticed. Harvey says the department has done all in its power to make those preceptors feel at home and by all accounts, they are.
"There's no way around that issue, you would certainly notice the fact that people are different, at least in the short term," Harvey says. "We would be very glad to have them and we do our best to make them feel welcome."
Color Blind Department
But they also admit that there are elements that are lost when first hand experience is not present.
Preceptor Daniel Bosch wishes the Faculty was more diverse, but says the situation is nothing new.
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