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Morgan Receives Diversity/ Multicultural Service Award
May 8, 2009
Jo-Ann Morgan, associate professor of African American studies and art was awarded a 2009 WIU President’s Excellence in Diversity and Multicultural Leadership Award for Service. Morgan was praised for actively promoting diversity within her classroom and the community. She developed and hosts the University Television Channel 3 show, "15 Minutes with Jo-Ann Morgan," and as part of the show, she finds guests from the WIU and Macomb communities who have diverse backgrounds with whom she discusses topics with multicultural themes. Morgan also created the "African American Studies Today" lecture series at WIU and was instrumental in designing the African-American studies department flat sheet flier for potential undergraduate students, as well as for the graduate program in African Diaspora Studies. She has served as a presenter for the WIU journalism department's "The Past, Present and Future of Minority Media" discussion, and she has given African-American history presentations to local elementary school children.
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