UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

Kansas University is creating a task force to advise upcoming diversity efforts, and the university’s top athletics official will lead it along with an African and African-American Studies professor. Incoming interim provost Sara Rosen announced in a message to campus Tuesday the creation of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Group. At Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little’s request, athletics director Sheahon Zenger and associate professor and African and African-American Studies department chairman Clarence Lang agreed to co-chair the group, Rosen said.  Zenger not only has a degree in higher education, Rosen said, but under his leadership KU Athletics already has a required diversity and inclusion training program that all athletes go through. Making recommendations for campuswide diversity training is one of the new task force’s top goals, and looking at what KU Athletics does should be part of the process, Rosen said. -Sara Shepherd, Lawrence Journal World, Read More