Reaching out: more Northeast Ohio companies are enjoying the economic benefits and workplace advantages of inclusion.(Guide to: Diversity)

Inside Business, October, 2005 by Connelly, Karin

When Kathryn M. Hall surveys Case Western Reserve University's new Village at 115--a $126 million residential and athletic complex on the north end of campus--she marvels at the technology and energy-efficient components of the project.

But Hall is more impressed with a more fundamental aspect of Village at 115. As university director of equal opportunity and diversity, Hall admires the diverse group of companies and contractors that helped build the village. Many of those people live in the neighborhood that surrounds the complex.

"When I look at the Village at 115, I'm proud of the state-of-the-art, cutting edge facility," Hall says. "But I'm more proud to know that the people who live around it were a part of building it."

The Village...

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