As part of the College's overall diversity efforts to help drive our teaching, research, and public engagement goals, the Carter G. Woodson Institute and Women, Gender & Sexuality areas received departmental status, and the first holder of the new Julian Bond Professorship of Civil Rights and Social Justice will soon be named:

• Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies

• The Difference a Department Makes: Woodson Institute Determines Its Destiny

• Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality

• WGS Becomes UVA’s Newest Academic Department

• UVA Creates Julian Bond Professorship for Civil Rights Education