OU professor Meta Carstarphen spoke about her vision for the new Gateway to Belonging course during a Thursday forum hosted as part of the search for director of the program.
Joshua Nelson, chair of the search committee for the director, introduced  Carstarphen as the second candidate in the webinarâs series. Adrienne Carter-Sowell, who has served associate head of diversity, equity and inclusion in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University, spoke during the first webinar on April 13.Â
According to an email sent by Nelson on Thursday, Adrienne Dixon â one of the candidates for director of the program â has withdrawn from the search. Her webinar on April 23 has been canceled while all the other webinars will proceed as scheduled.Â