The Institute on Black Life at the University of South Florida will sponsor its annual spring research symposium March 23-25 in the Phyllis P. Marshall Center on the Tampa campus. Juel Smith, founding director of the Institute, says that the topics were meant to be as diverse as the people whose lives are affected by them are.
Diversity means inclusion.
We need to be inclusive of everyone. There's a need for it to happen on this campus as well as others around the country. The main speaker for Wednesday, March 24, is Bernadette Gray-Little, chairperson of the psychology department and a professor in the Clinical Program at the University of North Carolina. Established in 1956, USF was the first public university created in the 20 th century and is now the largest metropolitan university in the Southeast. USF has won national acclaim for its research and instruction efforts in the fine arts, teacher education, accounting, marine science and psychology.