Diver served as special counsel to the office of Boston mayor Kevin White and then held a series of positions in Massachusetts state government, including assistant secretary of consumer affairs and undersecretary in the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance.
[4] Under Diver's leadership, the college added a new major in environmental studies,[5] hired additional faculty,[5] created the office of institutional diversity,[6] and saw the four-year graduation rate reach a new high.
[12][13] Among his publications, Diver is co-author of a multiple-edition textbook entitled "Administrative Law: Cases and Materials."
Diver and his wife lived and raised their sons in Boston during the 1960s in a neighborhood that was undergoing rapid gentrification.
Their experiences with school desegregation and racial equality were chronicled in The New York Times journalist J. Anthony Lukas's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Common Ground.