Kimberly Flint-Hamilton

St. Lawrence University has named KIMBERLY FLINT-HAMILTON as its associate dean for diversity and inclusion, a new position, starting in January. Flint-Hamilton is currently professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, where she has worked for the last 17 years. There, she was appointed by the university president to serve on its Diversity Inclusion Task Force, trained faculty and administrators on intergroup dialogue pedagogy, and co-chaired an annual daylong symposium, titled “Inclusive Excellence in Teaching.” At St. Lawrence, Flint-Hamilton will be tasked with chairing the university’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She also will be coordinating and leading the work of a diversity and inclusion plan for the university, maturing strategies along with faculty and staff to increase student retention and success, supporting faculty development of programs focused on creating diversity-aware classrooms, and advancing other recommended actions outlined by the university president’s Commission on Diversity.

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