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PCD Inclusion Sub-Committee
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2005 University-Wide Diversity Plan Task Force Report to the President
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Roberta M. Harding
Over her 15-year career on the faculty of the College of Law, Roberta M. Harding has displayed a firm commitment to the recruitment and retention of individuals of underrepresented populations, and has cultivated and promoted diversity to establish and foster a more inclusive and equitable learning environment at the college. Harding has broken barrier after barrier. She was the first African-American woman to be hired and fully promoted by the law school and one of the first women of color at any law school in the United States to hold an endowed, named professorship. As the only African-American faculty member, she reached out to students of diverse backgrounds to ensure that their experience here would not be affected by the low African-American enrollment at the time. She was the faculty adviser of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA), helped produce the first directory of minority law school graduates, and organized a mixer for African-American law, medical and dental students. Harding created the Student Public Interest Law Foundation, which seeks to obtain employment of students in public interest positions that tend to serve under-represented populations and to help maintain student focus on jobs that are socially responsible and not just financially rewarding. She has been instrumental in the hiring of three African-American faculty members, two in the last year, and making offers for many more. She routinely serves on committees to recruit minority faculty members, and mentors and helps to retain minority students.
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