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Tuesday June 6th

Diversity And Multicultural Affairs


Faculty discuss privilege, diversity before Spring Break

UNC’s Faculty Council once again put diversity at the center of the group’s monthly meeting Friday afternoon. The pre-spring break meeting began with diversity training from Elizabeth Dickinson, a professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, and a discussion of privilege. “People in positions of power — we can create all the policies we want.

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UNC recruits for diversity on Decision Day

“My goal is to make us the Morehouse College of (predominately white institutions),” he said. “They’re known for producing very high quality graduates, who go into fortune 500 companies ... We’ve had that for some time now, we’ve had a good percentage of our black males go on to do really great things — beyond Michael Jordan or a Harrison Barnes. We have Michael Jordans’ and Harrison Barrnes’ in medicine and in law.”

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