The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new chief diversity officer wants to make one thing clear about his role on campus.
“I’m not the vice provost for black folks,” Damon Williams, vice provost for diversity and climate, said at a recent meeting of the Academic Staff Assembly.
Williams, who is African American, started work at UW-Madison on Aug. 1 and is in the process of developing a new strategic framework for how the university will approach diversity issues on campus for years to come.