Darris Means, a 2005 ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ alumnus, has received the Diversity Leadership Award from the Richard Riley Institute at Furman University. This award is given to six business and/or individuals in different categories in upstate South Carolina. Awards are given to business and/or individuals for being diversity champions and demonstrating a leading role in promoting diversity on their college or university campus or in the community. Means received the award in the college/university student category. He
graduates from Clemson University this month with a
master’s degree in education with an emphasis in
student affairs.
Means has just completed a term as youth trustee on the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Board of Trustees and will join the university staff as assistant director of student life and leadership development in the ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Academy, an
enrichment program for academically talented students in the
Alamance-Burlington School System who have financial need or have no
family history of college attendance. He is also a member of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s National Alumni Executive Board.