The group was affiliated with a scholarship program for students from historically black colleges that Apple launched last year. “Many students from historically black colleges didn’t think it was attainable to come out to California,” said Tiffany King, director of Worldwide Human Resources at Apple, who runs the historically black colleges scholarship program. When she ran HR for the company's retail business, King recruited specifically from historically black colleges. Apple's "numbers are encouraging,” said Hannah Riley Bowles, a senior lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Under public pressure, technology companies began to release their diversity numbers publicly three years ago.

Source: Washington Post August 03, 2016 17:14 UTC