Darris Means, a 2005 Elon alumnus, has received the Diversity Leadership Award from the Richard Riley Institute at Furman University. This award is given to six business and/or individuals in different categories in upstate South Carolina. Awards are given to business and/or individuals for being diversity champions and demonstrating a leading role in promoting diversity on their college or university campus or in the community. Means received the award in the college/university student category. He
graduates from Clemson University this month with a
master’s degree in education with an emphasis in
student affairs.
Means has just completed a term as youth trustee on the Elon University Board of Trustees and will join the university staff as assistant director of student life and leadership development in the Elon Academy, an
enrichment program for academically talented students in the
Alamance-Burlington School System who have financial need or have no
family history of college attendance. He is also a member of Elon’s National Alumni Executive Board.