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The author asserts that while most everyone would agree that diversity in higher education is a positive, Janet Galligani Casey, a visiting associate professor at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, New York), thinks that all the talk surrounding it sometimes hides the other complicated realities that exist, especially for the working-class student. She argues that while every minority group might have its own specialized wants, needs, and concerns, working-class students stand apart from students in all other minority categories, even as they cut across all such categories. The author highlights the ways in which Casey's article "Diversity, Discourse, and the Working-Class Student" addresses the needs of these students and their context in higher education.