Diversity, Equity & Inclusion News

Awarded through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, the funds will diversify STEM education by providing scholarships for Master of Arts in teaching students specializing in STEM subjects.

Alongside leaders making a difference in diversity, equity and inclusion all over the nation, Avery Staley received an award for Lifetime Achievement in DEI.

The Lenoir-Rhyne will sponsor and host the university’s second annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Prayer Breakfast on Monday, Jan. 15.

Inspired by tribal leaders, the Native American Student Association shares experiences, history and traditions to promote cultural understanding and appreciation.

Integrating a range of academic support resources under focused leadership will allow BEAR Central to provide comprehensive and innovative support to students.

This spring, seminary students, faculty and alumni were given an opportunity to reflect on the place of hope and justice in America's past, present and future.

Perry Bradley, security supervisor for the LR campus in Columbia, S.C. and founder of a nonprofit serving communities statewide, received the FBI Director's Community Leadership Award in a May 5 ceremony.

From April 18 to 22, the campus and community will participate in a weeklong celebration of Naomi Shihab Nye's sequel to the 2019 Little Read selection “The Turtle of Oman.”

Before her own study-abroad year, Melanie Mora '25 is making the most of her international education at LR by mentoring and befriending students who come from around the world to study here.

In the Lenoir-Rhyne Visiting Writers Series, Howard Bryant discusses the business of sports journalism and the winding path of cultural progress.

Giving a reading for the Visiting Writers Series, former poet laureate Tracy K. Smith provided a demonstration of the power of poetry to process the human condition in the past and present.

The university’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Prayer Breakfast will take place Jan. 16 on the Hickory campus.