Voltaire Receives Professional COLORS Award  

SALISBURY, MD---Betty Voltaire, resident director for Chesapeake Hall on the campus of Salisbury University, recently received the Professional COLORS Award for “On-going Learning on Racial and Ethnic Sensitivity” from the Mid-Atlantic Association for College and University Housing Officers. The award is “given in recognition of continued excellence and dedication in promoting the basic rights of humankind.”

“Betty Voltaire exercises a key leadership position within the Office of Residence Life and the University in the area of diversity awareness and programming,” said Dr. Kathleen Groutt, director of housing and residence life at SU.

Voltaire, co-founder of the Student Committee on Diversity, wrote and published a letter in The (Salisbury) Daily Times in support of the University’s diversity initiatives; authored an article for the student paper in support of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA) name change to BT GLASS (Bisexual, Transgender Gay Lesbian Straight Supporters); organized a panel discussion on LGBT issues for resident assistants; and served on the University’s Multicultural Festival Week committee.

“Voltaire’s contributions demonstrated to the campus community,” said Groutt,
  “that a forum for the expression of multiple viewpoints was needed and could be done.”