{"id":178,"date":"2012-08-30T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/seeds\/?p=178"},"modified":"2014-07-02T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:30:34","slug":"crystal-williams-dean-for-institutional-diversity-assistant-professor-of-creative-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/2012\/08\/30\/crystal-williams-dean-for-institutional-diversity-assistant-professor-of-creative-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Williams, Dean for Institutional Diversity, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, an established poet, and <strong>Reed<\/strong>\u2019s first <strong>Dean for Institutional Diversity<\/strong>. As Dean, Williams evaluates the current state of diversity at Reed and works in conjunction with a variety of other departments at Reed to establish and strengthen programs that promote multiculturalism. Williams\u2019 vision of diversity includes expanding the socioeconomic range of the students who attend Reed, and also bringing diversity more prominently into the conversations that happen at Reed in classes and beyond. She says, \u201cI think of diversity as fully engaging peoples\u2019 visible and invisible differences as part of the intellectual project of the college. Any conversation is richer when it includes many people from a variety of backgrounds and when they are able to fully articulate their whole selves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Williams has served on the board of the <strong>Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center<\/strong>and <strong>Write Around Portland<\/strong>. In October, Williams was appointed by John Kitzhaber to the <strong>Oregon Arts Commission<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, an established poet, and Reed\u2019s first Dean for Institutional Diversity. As Dean, Williams evaluates the current state of diversity at Reed and works in conjunction with a variety of other departments at&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/2012\/08\/30\/crystal-williams-dean-for-institutional-diversity-assistant-professor-of-creative-writing\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Crystal Williams, Dean for Institutional Diversity, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,42],"tags":[59,94,49],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress-reed-eduarts","category-social-justice","tag-faculty","tag-poetry","tag-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/seeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}