Diverse Conversations: Recruiting a Diverse Student Population - Higher Education: Diversity is immensely valuable to any higher education institution, but not all universities and colleges are successful or even aware of how to recruit a diverse student population. Fortunately, this is an area in which John LaBrie, dean and vice president for Professional Education, Northeastern University College of Professional Studies, is an expert. I recently sat down with him to find out about the types of strategies that are helping universities ensure that they recruit diverse student populations.