Dr. Steve Price is being honored by the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission (CHRC) for promoting diversity and equity. website: http://www.chrc.us/
Price, Superintendent of Middletown City Schools, will receive the Merlin Pope Jr. Diversity Leadership Award. The award is given to an individual who best embraces and promotes diversity in the spirit of Merlin Pope Jr., the man who created the term “managing diversity.” Icy Williams, Associate Director of Corporate Supplier Diversity for Procter & Gamble will also receive the award
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Photo: Merlin G. Pope Jr.
A Middletown native and a Yale-educated sociologist, Pope has long been recognized as one of the pioneers in the Diversity Industry. In 1977, he coined the term “diversity” to describe the changing demographics of the U.S. workforce. Over the next 21 years, Merlin and the company he co-founded, Pope & Associates, Inc., trained hundreds of thousands of participants and worked with over half of the Fortune 500 companies.
The Merlin G. Pope, Jr. Diversity Leadership Award was created in 2003 to recognize an individual executive who has demonstrated outstanding commitment and leadership to diversity and inclusion within their organization and/or the community.
Criteria for the award nomination includes:
• Having been actively involved in diversity efforts within their organization and/or the community
• Having proactively mentored individuals from diverse backgrounds
• Having demonstrated commitment to diversity especially in the face of resistance
• Holding others accountable for diversity efforts and results
• Making a difference through consistent diversity leadership.
Price was nominated for the award by local attorney Don Crain with letters of support from Dr. Pamela Cross Young, Dr. James Harvey, Circe Stumbo, Dr. Kelly Cowan.
Debbie Alberico
Community Relations / Communications
Middletown City Schools
1515 Girard Ave.
Middletown, OH 45044
Phone: 513.217.2625
Fax: 513.420.4652
dalberico@middletowncityschools.com
www.middletowncityschools.com
