Diversity and the Libraries

University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart has named 15 state, faculty, alumni and staff leaders as members of the new Chancellor’s Council on Diversity, which he will chair. The council members will assist in determining the university’s diversity agenda, formulating strategies to disseminate the diversity message, identifying funding sources to promote diversity plans and serving as statewide diversity ambassadors.

To see a list of ambassadors and to read the full article see: http://diversitynews.uark.edu/15171.htm

The University of Arkansas has reorganized its efforts to foster multiculturalism on campus through the creation of a Vice Provost for Diversity position. Charles Robinson, associate professor of history and director of the African American studies program at the university, has accepted an appointment to fill this administrative role, effective July 1.

Robinson will succeed Carmen Coustaut, who was appointed in 2005 for a five-year term as the Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Diversity and Education. Dr. Coustaut will be resuming teaching in the Fulbright College at the conclusion of her term.

The full press release is available from the Daily Headlines.