Diversity and Community Director Promoted to Associate VP
VERMILLION, S.D. -- Lamont Sellers, who has served as director of the USD Center for Diversity & Community for the past two years, has been named the new associate vice president for diversity.
Sellers was instrumental in getting the center off the ground two years ago, developing programs to provide diversity and social justice training as well as multicultural leadership.
He has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics education from Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a master’s in higher education administration from the University of Denver.
Before coming to USD in 2014 he served as associate director and African American services coordinator at the University of Denver; associate director of the Diversity Institute at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania; and as senior academic advisor at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia.