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SIU Carbondale has named its new Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Paul Frazier s appointment will have to be approved by SIU Trustees. He comes to the position from the University of Alabama, where he s held a similar position since 2018.
Chancellor Austin Lane says the university s search committee had high praise for Frazier, who also has led diversity initiatives at Texas Tech University and in K-12 education in Lubbock, Texas.
Frazier says he was attracted to SIUC s diverse student body along with the commitment from administrators for DEI priorities. He says his first plans when he arrives in Carbondale include listening tours so that he can help move diversity, equity, and inclusion to the next level.
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AJ MCCLEOD
This has been a year like no other and those of us fortunate of reading this have made it through it no matter the struggles we have faced.
Many families lost loved ones and went through tremendous hurt and pain as we faced circumstances that our country had been fortunate not to have had to face before. As we leave 2020 I think of two words that have stuck with me from a conversation that sparked from the question, “What would keep children out of the juvenile justice system?” The simple but very complex answer: “Opportunity and Access.
Opportunity as defined by Oxford is “a set of circumstances that make it possible to do something” while access in its verb form is to “obtain, examine, or retrieve”. As I thought about this answer I thought about the opportunities I have been given and how I gained access to these things, while others from my neighborhood hadn’t.