Yes, I think that's definitely the case. Also, I think that if we're going to have DEI criteria, we ought to be really flexible with what they are and who's equity-deserving at any one point in time. We shouldn't be operating on past assumptions.
I teach at Trent University, which is sort of.... Some people say that it's in the north, but I don't think it's in the north. A lot of the most disadvantaged students in my classrooms are white rural kids from backgrounds where people don't have a university education. Those are people who wouldn't be considered equity-deserving by a whole bunch of categories, but they don't fit in at the university. I think we need to be very flexible about what we mean in terms of who deserves special attention and who deserves assistance in higher education.