UNCA Center for Diversity Education and ASCORE Celebrate 2042!

The Center for Diversity Education of UNC Asheville held the 2042 ASCORE Leadership Awards luncheon at the Troy & Helen Morris Hellenic Center in Asheville on November 6, 2015.

Back Row (L-R): Al Whitesides, Annette Coleman, Stanley Scott, James B. Ferguson, II, Barabara T. Ferguson, James Burton, Clifford Cotton, William Young. Second Row: Viola J. Spells, Carolyn J. Taylor, Cheryl R. Hunley, Viola O. Turner, Oralene G. Simmons, Marvin D. Chambers, Elizabeth Colton, Sanra B. Hughes, Jesse Ray, Jr. Front Row seated: ASCORE member Millus H. Turman, Phillip Cooper, Samantha Singer, UNCA Chancellor Dr. Mary K. Grant, Yetta Williams, Dulce Porras-Rosas, Lucia Daugherty, and ASCORE member Etta W. Patterson. Photo: David Allen

The award program is named for the year projected by demographers that ethnic and racial minority groups will comprise a majority of the U.S. population, and also in honor of ASCORE (Asheville Student Committee on Racial Equality).

The Center for Diversity Education also awarded and recognized the work of five young adults who exemplify the characteristics that make ASCORE and ASCORE members so successful. The 2042 ASCORE Awardees are Phillip Cooper, Samantha Singer, Yetta Williams, Dulce Porras-Rosas, and Lucia Daugherty.

Awardees were also recognized together with members of ASCORE on November 5, 2015 at Kimmel Arena by nationally renowned scholar and journalist Henry Louis Gates Jr., who keynoted the evening event, marking the 20th anniversary of the Center for Diversity Education.

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