There was Dr. Cindi Love, executive director of the American College Personnel Association; Dr. Benjamin Reese Jr., president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education; and Tiki Ayiku, senior director of educational programs for the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.
Moderating was Dr. Fred Hord, executive director and founder of the Association of Black Culture Centers or ABCC, which hosted the panel discussion at its annual conference in Boston.
“We’ve never had representatives from those mainstream organizations at a national conference,” Hord said afterward. “That’s what was unprecedented.”
The organizations have done some collaborations in the past couple years, and their leaders met at the November conference to discuss what more they might do together and how. The panel set an optimistic tone for the future.
“It was one of the most comfortable, cooperative sessions I’ve been a part of,” Hord said.
Two years ago, the Alabama chapter of the diversity officers group, known as NADOHE, participated in ABCC’s conference at Auburn University. Last year, the student affairs administrators association, which goes by the acronym NASPA, hosted a webinar with Hord and two other leaders of ABCC.
