CREDE - Center for Race, Ethnicity & Diversity Education

The assistant professor of education presented in two sessions at a program hosted by the American Educational Studies Association.

The name change reflects the center’s focused mission and goals as the university’s dedicated resource for race- and ethnicity-related advocacy, services and programs.

Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) will speak about the friendship and shared vision of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and her father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, at 7:30 p.m. in the Numen Lumen Pavilion.

Yasmine Arrington's "ScholarCHIPS" program has provided 17 scholarships to date to children whose parents are imprisoned, and her work both on and off Elon University's campus has caught the attention of nonprofit leaders and government policymakers.

10 a.m. on Sunday, October 19 in Numen Lumen Pavilion.

INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine has recognized Elon with a 2014 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, an accolade that reflects ongoing university efforts to celebrate and support students, staff, faculty and alumni of all backgrounds and beliefs.

William Kamkwamba, the builder of a Malawi village windmill whose efforts are recounted in Elon University’s 2014-15 Common Reading selection "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind," is spending two days on campus this week to share stories about the power of persistence.

Research by Elon's Faculty Fellow for the Multicultural Center looks at the role of juvenile justice, child welfare and education systems on educational outcomes of African-American men in foster care and residential group homes.

Join us Wednesday, Sept. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Numen Lumen Pavilion for an event co-sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the Multicultural Center as students from diverse Christian groups on campus will lead prayer and worship for healing and reconciliation in response to recent events in Ferguson, Missouri.