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Contact: Brad
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UK President Lee T. Todd Jr.; Anna Allen Edwards,
director, UK Chandler Medical Center Office for Multicultural
and Academic Affairs; Deneese Jones, chair, UK President’s
Commission on Diversity; Lynda Brown-Wright, co-director,
UK African American Studies and Research Program;
and Lauretta Byars, associate provost, UK Office
for Multicultural and Academic Affairs.
The
Equal Opportunity Panel provides advice on all
university-wide matters of equal opportunity in
accordance with UK Administrative Regulations.
The panel monitors and assesses plans and programs
that ensure equal opportunity, facilitates development
and implementation of diversity, and designs general
ways that assist university officials in exercising
their responsibilities to assure equal opportunity
and a supportive campus environment.
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LEXINGTON,
Ky. (March 26, 2004) -- The
University of Kentucky Equal Opportunity Panel
presented the inaugural Equal
Opportunity Awards today to five UK departments
and programs. The newly created honors recognize
existing programs and services that support the
provision of equal opportunities to the campus
community.
“The
Equal Opportunity Panel is extremely pleased to
recognize the recipients of the first Equal Opportunity
Awards for the programs they will implement to
make UK a more inclusive learning environment for
all faculty, staff and students,” said Lauretta
Byars, associate provost, Office for Multicultural
and Academic Affairs.
The
2004 winners are:
• UK
Chandler Medical Center for Multicultural
and Academic Affairs: in support of their traditional “Rites
of Passage” ceremony, celebrating the accomplishments
of its honorees, acknowledging the contributions
of their “elders” and ancestors,
and seeking to promote a sense of goodwill among
students, faculty and staff.
• President’s
Commission on Diversity: in recognition of the
commission’s efforts to create baseline data
important for improving programs, achieving larger
institutional goals, and providing concrete evidence
about the links between diversity, staffing needs,
faculty scholarship and student learning.
• African
American Studies and Research Program: in recognition
of the program’s efforts to recognize, highlight
and examine issues that are central to the lives
of African-American women, including their historical
and contemporary roles in their community and beyond
through the annual Black Women’s Conference.
• Disability
Resource Center: in recognition of the center’s
efforts to create university-wide programming to
highlight artists and/or lecturers whose work expresses
modern day life, culture, history and living with
a disability.
• UK
chapter of Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources
and Related Sciences (MANRRS): in recognition of
the chapter’s active participation in promoting
diversity throughout the UK College of Agriculture
and the general university community.
Winners
were selected by the Equal Opportunity Panel to
receive financial awards based on the availability
of funds.
The
Equal Opportunity Panel provides advice on all
university-wide matters of equal opportunity in
accordance with UK Administrative Regulations.
The panel monitors and assesses plans and programs
that ensure equal opportunity, facilitates development
and implementation of diversity, and designs general
ways that assist university officials in exercising
their responsibilities to assure equal opportunity
and a supportive campus environment.
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