Giving Compass' Take:

• EdSurge discusses a homecoming video from the University of Wisconsin which brought to light the issue of campus diversity. 

• What are the possible underlying reasons for these patterns? How can colleges improve upon diversity efforts?

• Read about the racial disparities present in college faculty. 

A two-minute video made by students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison was meant to promote school spirit and bring the campus together during homecoming festivities a couple of months ago. But some students there had a very different reaction as they watched scene after scene of students working and playing around campus, since almost every one of the students shown was white.

Some described the footage as “actually a bit scary,” says Kingsley-Reigne Pissang, a senior at the university and the outgoing president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, an African American sorority there.

She had been looking forward to seeing the video initially because she and several of her sorority sisters had been filmed and told they'd be included in the piece, which was slated to be played on the Jumbotrons at halftime during the homecoming football game. And of course it was to be blasted out on the university's social media channels.

“It sounded like a really cool concept,” said Pissang, who spent an hour with the videographers at the filming. “Their theme was aisles or walkways. There was a Delta commercial that they actually sent out attached to the email as the format of what they wanted the video to look like.”

But it turns out the final video did not include the footage of the students from Alpha Kappa Alpha. Apparently because the shots were too dark, they were later told. And there weren't any other minority student groups represented either.

Read the full article about campus diversity by Jeffrey R. Young at EdSurge.