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Task Force Committee Members

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Task Force Charge

To create a blueprint designed to serve as a change agent enabling Appalachian to develop an increasingly vibrant, inclusive living, learning and working community


Chancellor’s Task Force on Diversity

Kinyata Adams - CSIL
John Blackburn - Board of Trustees
Tim Burwell - Academic Affairs
Beth Carroll - English
Robert Cherry - Finance, Banking and Insurance
Chuck Claxton - Leadership and Educational Studies
Dayton Cole - Attorney’s Office
Jerome Conley - Student
Garner Dewey - Technology
Jeanne Dubino - English
Alyson Ebaugh - Human Resource Services
Randy Edwards - Walker College of Business
Mike Evans - Marketing
Renee Evans - Human Development and Psychological Counseling
Tom Fisher - Extension and Distance Education
Hank Foreman - Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Linda Foulsham - Office of Equity, Diversity and Compliance
Kim Hall - Religion and Philosophy
Eric Hart - Learning Assistance Program
Erin Hill - Enrollment Services
Tina Hogan - Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment
Edelma Huntley - Graduate Studies and Research
Marian Tan Johnson - Doctoral Student, Educational Leadership
Jesse Lutabingwa - International Education and Development
Martha Marking - Theater and Dance / Faculty Senate
Jeff McBride - Health, Leisure and Exercise Science
Patricia Napiorski - Foreign Languages and Literature
Mike O’Connor - Physical Plant
Gus Peña - Center for Student Involvement and Leadership
Lynn Patterson - Belk Library and Information Commons
Suzette Patterson - Student Development
Angela Quick - Watauga High School
Mary Reichel - Belk Library and Information Commons
Karen Robertson - School of Music
Stacy Sears - Residence Life / Staff Council
Daniel Sym - Graduate Student, College Student Development
Kin-Yan Szeto - Theatre and Dance
David Taylor - University Advancement
Gary Walker - Biology
John Weaver - Athletics
Suzanne Wehner - Office of Disability Services
Dale Wheeler - Chemistry
Will Windley - Student
Ezell Williams - Heltzer Honors Program

Co-Chairs

Tracey Wright - Office of Student Development
Linda Robinson - Office of Equity, Diversity and Compliance