The African Student Association was the first recipient of the Blackprint Award, which was given out at the first Inaugural Black Carpet, the main event for Black History Month. This event was hosted by Student Diversity and Social Justice to celebrate Black Excellence, Black Love, and Black Joy.  This award is designed to recognize a…

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice), Beth Gersten (Lee Business School), Emily Shreve (Academic Success Center), Rosan Mitola (Libraries), and Ross Bryant (Military and Veterans Services) presented at the 28th Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience.  The topic was "The Color of Success: First-Year Experience…

Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice) presented at the Second Annual Northern Arizona University Student Leadership Conference. The title of his workshop was "Who Do You Lead For?: Avoiding Burnout as an Over-Involved Student Leader."

Eli Williams (Service Learning and Leadership) and Kevin Wright (Student Diversity and Social Justice) recently presented a leadership lunch workshop on "Cultivating Hope and Resiliency" for Black History Month.

Romeo Jackson (Student Diversity and Social Justice) received the Dr. Sheltreese D. McCoy Award for Outstanding Practice in Social Justice, for their significant commitments to social justice in both the field of student affairs as an academic discipline and through advanced practice in a professional capacity. They also recently presented a…

Romeo Jackson (Student Diversity and Social Justice) published a book chapter in the latest text in the Core Concepts in Higher Education series. The chapter is titled "Refuting Contemporaneity: Trans* Experiences In, Out, and Beyond Higher Education Children of the House of "Pay it No Mind" (A Collective of Trans* Scholars in Higher Education and…

Kevin Wright, program coordinator for the black/African American community in the Office of Student Diversity and Social Justice, served as a panelist for a webinar hosted by the Graduate Students and New Professionals Community of Practice under the American College Personnel Association and of the National Association for Student Personnel…