Diversity Council

Co-chairs: Marva Rudolph, Director, Office of Equity & Diversity; and Alan Chesney, Executive Director of Human Resources

Related Web site: http://oed.admin.utk.edu/diversityplan/

Task: Advises on creating and sustaining a welcoming, supportive and inclusive campus climate through goals such as attracting and retaining faculty and staff from under-represented populations; attracting, retaining, and graduating students from historically under-represented populations and international students; and ensuring that undergraduate curricular requirements include significant intercultural perspectives.

Membership:

• James (JJ) Brown, Office of the Dean of Students
• Herb Byrd, University Extension
• Luis Cano, Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures
• Denise Harvey, Office of the Chancellor
• Robert J. Hinde, Chemistry
• Pam Hindle, Commission for Women
• Carolyn Hodges, Graduate School
• George Hoemann, Commission for LGBT People
• Jill Keally, Libraries
• Paul Lee, School of Art
• Susan Martin, Office of the Provost
• Alan Muir, Career Services
• Mary Papke, Graduate School and Ready for the World
• Jane Redmond, Commission for Blacks
• Wornie Reed, Africana Studies
• Bob Rider, College of Education, Health & Human Sciences
• Malaika M. Serrano, Center for International Education, Programs Abroad
• Jan Simek, Office of the Chancellor
• Terrell Strayhorn, Educational Psychology & Counseling
• Donna Thomas, Women’s Athletics
• Paula Williams, College of Law
• Research Associate: Sabrina Rhodes, Office of Equity & Diversity