The 2009-10 Affirmative Action Grants, used to support campus organizations, offices or individuals engaged in activities or programs that advance the spirit of affirmative action, were recently awarded to the following individuals:
Lynn Anderson, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies Department/NYS Inclusive Recreation Resource Center, received $500 for “Access for All: Faculty and Staff as Campus Change Agents.”
Seth Asumah, Africana Studies Department, received $500 for Black History Month programming including Diane Gooden’s visit and presentation on “Schizophrenia: An Equal Opportunity Disorder.”
Noelle Chaddock Paley, Multicultural Life Office, and Cheri Skipworth and Steven Canals, Residential Life and Housing Office, received $500 for the 1st Annual SUNY Cortland Student Conference on Diversity, Equity and Social Justice: “Imagining Communities without Walls.”
For more information about the Affirmative Action Grant Program, contact Affirmative Action Committee Chair Regina Grantham or Affirmative Action Officer Wendy McAllister.