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Dean of Students and associate provost Kenneth Elmore (Wheelock’87) is leaving Boston University to become the president of Dean College, in Franklin, Mass., starting July 1. He will replace Paula Rooney, who is leaving Dean after 27 years as president.
This year’s ceremony will honor both the civil rights icon and his wife, Coretta Scott King, a graduate of New England Conservatory.
long racial reckoning in America. At the ugly end of a presidency that seemed to embrace white supremacy. And just days after a violent insurrection on Capitol Hill that saw the Confederate battle flag waved in the halls of Congress. “For me, it makes MLK Day feel like more than just our annual celebration,” says Katherine Kennedy, director of the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, which is hosting the event. “It’s a true remembrance of what MLK stood for, fought for, died for. And, especially for those of us who have lived long enough to have been a part of that, it’s a pre...