A longtime employee and administrator at Danville Area Community College is leaving the college to work for the City of Urbana.
Carla Boyd was approved by the Urbana City Council during a meeting on Monday night to be the city’s new Human Rights and Equity Officer. She had been serving as the Assistant Vice President of Student Services and Chief Diversity Officer at DACC prior to her hiring in Urbana.
Boyd had worked at DACC for 23 years serving in a number of positions, in addition to serving as an adjunct instructor in reading skills, success in college and race and ethnic relations. She is currently working on a Ph.D. in Education Administration and Foundations at Illinois State University.
“I have facilitated courageous conversations on race, privilege, hidden rules of economic class, and implicit bias,” Boyd explains. “The Human Rights Ordinance and Civilian Police Review Board reform should be changes that reflect the perspectives from all stakeholders, those that will impose the ordinances and those that the ordinances will be imposed upon. Assuring that input is included from all sectors of the community will increase buy-in and could alleviate a lot of the contention that usually surrounds ordinances. Relationship is the cornerstone of building trust. It is hard to trust someone that you do not know.”
David Groves Jr., who had been working alongside Boyd at DACC as the Coordinator of Recruitment and Social Media Assistant, is also leaving the college to become the director of the Laura Lee Fellowship House.
