Last year, the University of Michigan implemented a comprehensive action plan for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion on campus.
We sat down with Dr. Robert Sellers, who is leading the charge on the ambitious project and fills the new roles of Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion, Chief Diversity Officer and the Charles D. Moody Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Education.
The new position seems to have been tailor-made for him.
Dr. Sellers has carried out extensive research on the role race plays in the psychological lives of African-Americans, developing with his students an empirical and conceptual model of African-American racial identity.
He shared his take on the campus climate, the Strategic Plan and his personal experience at Michigan as a graduate student.