Working Group Purpose Statement:
To develop a comprehensive plan, timeline, and assessment benchmarks for identifying and redressing racist practices experienced by BIPOC faculty, advancing a diverse, multiculturally informed, and anti-racist instructional faculty that cultivate an inclusive university climate, and providing robust support such that BIPOC faculty can thrive at JMU throughout each stage of their professional career.
Cynthia Bauerle
Interim Vice Provost for Faculty and Curriculum
Cara Meixner
Professor, Graduate Psychology; Executive Director, CFI
Besi Muhonja
Professor, Director, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
David Owusu-Ansah
Associate Provost for Diversity & Professor of History
Linda Thomas
Professor
Working Group Members:
Melissa W. Aleman - Communication Studies
Marcus Davis - Associate Dean, College of Science & Math
Gilpatrick Hornsby - Assistant Professor, Hart School of Hospitality, Sport and Recreation Management
Cherelle Johnson - Adjunct Faculty, College of Education
Jennifer Kester - Human Resources
Calvin Henry Lawrence - Alumnus
Meshayla Lumpkin - Graduate Student, CSPA
Anastaciya Wheeler - Student
Steve Whitmeyer - Interim Associate Dean, College of Science & Math
