诗人克里斯托·安·威廉姆斯多元化和包容性第一副教务长
前贝茨学院管理者的目标是：利用波士顿大学的前进势头
Poet and administrator Crystal Ann Williams started this week as BU’s first associate provost for diversity and inclusion. 布赖恩·菲茨杰拉德摄
波士顿大学任命一位获奖诗人担任新设立的多元化和包容性副教务长一职。这位名叫克里斯特尔·安·威廉姆斯（Crystal Ann Williams）的诗人负责促进大学各阶层的多样性，她引用了萨尔曼·拉什迪（Salman Rushdie）的一段话来说明诗歌与多样性之间的联系。
“A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep,” Rushdie said. Williams, who started her new job on Monday, says that it’s “the goal of shaping a world in which we can all thrive and fully participate that drives me in all arenas of my life.”
Her career has embodied practicing the diversity she preaches (she started as an actress in Washington, D.C.). She comes to BU from Bates College, where she has been an associate vice president and a professor of English since 2013. 在此之前，她在里德学院（Reed College）任教13年。
威廉姆斯说，她在波士顿大学的任务之一是继续教务长简·莫里森（Jean Morrison）和教务副教务长朱莉·桑德尔（Julie Sandell）的努力，使澳门威尼斯人注册网站队伍多样化。
她说：“我的目标是利用他们的前进势头。”“It is to help develop additional University practices and programs and to work with the deans at the college and school level to help them engage in this area. It’s likely we will focus on developing a collectively derived institutional framework for diversity and inclusion that speaks to the University’s strategic plan and can help define and drive the work ahead of us.”
她补充说，校方承诺“确保波士顿大学的澳门威尼斯人注册网站、学生和员工反映出我们国家和世界上伟大而令人兴奋的多元化，从而确保我们的持续卓越”。“这个职位对牛津大学来说是一个新职位，从根本上来说是一个战略性和创造性的职位，我觉得非常有吸引力。”
“Crystal brings considerable experience and an accomplished record of leadership in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion,” Morrison says. “在贝茨和里德学院，她都展示了自己的协作能力，有效地建立和发展了重要的办公室，促进、支持和推进了一种包容的机构文化。”
At Bates, Williams’ numerous initiatives included moving the Office of Intercultural Education, which oversees diversity programs, to a more central campus location, a metaphor for the way she expanded its staffing and role; the Working Weekend, bringing alumni mentors to campus to network with students from underrepresented populations; 山猫先!an endeavor that supports students who are the first in their families to attend a four-year college and has been found to help them cope with academics and making friendships (the Bates mascot is a bobcat); 以及为LGBTQIA+学生提供同伴指导和其他项目的SPARQ。
她还帮助领导了学生定位的变革，并监督了为弱势群体和LGBTQIA+学生创建的新校友团体。她还公开倡导美国教授的多样性。
莫里森说，新任副教务长“为这项工作获得了大量的慈善支持，包括梅隆基金会（Mellon Foundation）的大笔资助。”据该学院称，自2015年以来，这笔100万美元的奖金用于开发招聘和留住多元化澳门威尼斯人注册网站的方法，帮助贝茨从代表性不足的群体中招聘了13名终身教授和讲师，总共聘用了25名。
作为四本诗集的作者，威廉姆斯获得了麦克道尔殖民地的奖学金和由底特律的Broadside莲花出版社颁发的内奥米·朗·马吉特诗歌奖。她是受现代艺术博物馆委托为该博物馆的雅各布·劳伦斯移民系列展览写诗的10位诗人之一，该展览颂扬了这位名义上的画家1941年澳门威尼斯人注册非裔美国人从南方农村向北移民的作品。
威廉姆斯在纽约大学获得学士学位，在康奈尔大学获得美术硕士学位。她还曾任教于芝加哥哥伦比亚学院和德堡大学。
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