Press release from UNC Asheville:
Richard Reddick will give a lecture, Campus and Community Racial Climate – Its Influence on Creating Inclusive Faculty Environments, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. in UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center, in the Manheimer Room. Reddick’s talk is free and open to everyone.
“As UNC Asheville deepens its commitment to recruiting and retaining more faculty, staff and students from underrepresented groups, we need to situate our campus in the context of wider local and national race relations,” says Professor Tracey Rizzo, chair of UNC Asheville’s Department of History and organizer of the event.
Reddick, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Departments of Educational Leadership, and Policy and African and African Diaspora Studies, will discuss how this context influences perceptions about whether campuses are welcoming or exclusionary. He adds, “At UNC Asheville, I hope to discuss approaches that universities can take, in light of the external factors, to improve the racial climate on college campuses.”
Reddick’s talk is presented by UNC Asheville’s Department of History and Office of the Provost. For more information, email history@unca.edu or call 828.251.6425.
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