The three academics—Gary Orfield and Christopher Edley Jr., co-founders of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard, now housed at UCLA, and Dr. Robert A. Corrigan, longtime president at San Francisco State University—all have been selected to receive Diverse magazine’s Dr. John Hope Franklin Award. The award is bestowed annually to recognize individuals and organizations for excellence in higher education.
This year’s awardees embody the principles of the award’s namesake, said Maya Matthews Minter, Vice President of Editorial and Production at Diverse.
“The awardees, just as Dr. Franklin demonstrated during his lifetime, represent the very essence of excellence and integrity in academic leadership and service,” Minter said.
