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LOOK UP: GILLESPIE MOBILE ON DISPLAY
CFCC added to its collection of pieces from artist DOROTHY GILLESPIE this year. A twenty-eight-piece mobile arrangement of colorful aluminum called “Hanging Starbursts” was installed in the main lobby of the Wilson Center. It joins three other pieces from Gillespie at CFCC: “Entrance to the Enchanted Castle,” which has been in the Wilson Center lobby since the building opened in 2015; “Festival of Sound”; and “Gold Panels with Ribbons”.
HENDERSON JOINS GOOD SHEPHERD CIS CAPE FEAR RECEIVES $1.5M GIFT UNCW NAMES CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER
Local nonprofit Good Shepherd Center recently hired LAUREN HENDERSON as its director of finance and administration, a newly created position to help with the group’s expected growth in the coming years.
In the role, she works with the group’s executive director and board to oversee Good Shepherd’s financial activities, as well as administrative and human resource duties.
Good Shepherd Center serves as a soup kitchen, homeless shelter, and rehousing solution for the Cape Fear community. The organization’s Sgt. Eugene Ashley Center provides bridge housing and case management to homeless veterans and chronically homeless men with disabilities. And its SECU Lakeside Reserve has forty units of affordable housing for chronically homeless adults with disabilities.
Before joining the nonprofit’s staff, Henderson served on Good Shepherd’s board and as treasurer.
Henderson, who holds an MBA from UNCW, previously spent fifteen years in financial roles with CastleBranch, including as the Wilmington company’s chief financial officer.
Communities In Schools Cape Fear recently received a gift of $1.5 million.
Philanthropist MACKENZIE SCOTT donated $133.5 million to forty Communities In Schools affiliates, including the local organization.
“We are thrilled about what this will mean for our local students,” says LOUISE HICKS (above), Communities In Schools Cape Fear executive director. “Every day, we see their increasing need for help to overcome the challenges they face. This will help us do even more to provide that support.”
Communities In Schools Cape Fear partners with public schools and community agencies in New Hanover, Pender, and Duplin counties to connect students and their families to critical resources, such as food, housing, health care, counseling, and remote learning technology.
Nearly thirty student support specialists work directly with students in twenty-one area schools, and the group provides after-school programming and tutoring, young parent support programs, teen court, mediation and restitution programs, and summer enrichment opportunities such as the Children’s Defense Fund’s Freedom Schools.
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DONYELL ROSEBORO was tapped to serve as UNCW’s chief diversity officer after serving as interim chief diversity officer since July 2020.
University of North Carolina Wilmington officials conducted a national search for the position and interviewed several candidates.
“Given the comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion work currently in progress and the need for stability in the position, the chancellor extended an offer to Dr. Roseboro to continue in the … role,” says a university announcement.
“Dr. Roseboro is a proven leader who is dedicated to building, supporting, and cultivating an inclusive campus,” Chancellor JOSE SARTARELLI says.
Under Roseboro’s leadership, UNCW launched several initiatives, including a new Bridge Program to give transitional support to college students from underrepresented populations, NextGen Post-Doctoral Fellowships for doctoral candidates who hope to join UNCW faculty, and the Diversity and Inclusion Fellows Program.
She also oversaw major renovations of Centro Hispano and the Upperman African American Cultural Center and worked with the Chancellor’s Renewal and Change Accountability Committee that reviews the university’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
Roseboro is a professor in UNCW’s department of instructional technology, foundations, and secondary education in the Watson College of Education.
