Manchester University Names Chief Diversity Officer
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowMichael Dixon has been promoted to chief diversity officer at Manchester University. He has been a member of the University Diversity Committee for a year and has served as director of intercultural services. The committee works to regularly assess the University climate, enhance institutional cultural competence related to diversity, and develop and encourage cohesive institutional programming on the North Manchester and Fort Wayne campuses. Dixon is working to complete a doctoral degree at Indiana State University in educational leadership administration and is looking at researching the diversity self-awareness of college and university presidents. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies (philosophy and race) from North Carolina State University in 2004. He holds a master in education degree in in college student affairs leadership from Grand Valley State University (Allendale, Michigan). Dixon coordinates Manchester’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Remembrance and Rededication Ceremony. The 50th anniversary of King’s speech at Manchester – his final speech on a college campus before he was slain – is in February 2018.