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Cleckley ACSA Diversity Achievement SELECTED DIVERSITY WORK 2016 - 2019 improving diversity in academic, com- munity, and professional contexts award winning leader for diversity, equity, and inclusionary projects dedicated to the emergence of equality and inclusion in the design eld “Professor Cleckley is one of the strongest voices for inclusion, diversity and equity at the School of Architecture and University... [He is] the co-chair of our Inclusion + Equity committee and has taken a leadership role in cultivating a diverse community at the School of Architecture. Under his leadership, the committee has dened a set of clear goals stating that the project of the committee and School is not simply about including people of varied backgrounds, identities and experiences, but rather of committing ourselves to the sustained, critical rethinking of our institutional Elgin Cleckley, Assoc. AIA, policies, practices, structures, and culture. As part of this process, Professor Cleckley has been leading a racial equity assessment at the NOMA School of Architecture with the Racial Equity Institute [REI], committed himself to curricular programming and research that looks at the complicated and dicult racial past of the university Assistant Professor of Architecture and and the many historical sites in its vicinity, and is in the process of Design Thinking developing pipeline programming to strengthen our racial diversity with appointment in the School of Nursing within the student body at the School. “ and Curry School of Education Dean Ila Berman University of Virginia University of Virginia, School of Architecture School of Architecture Edward E. Elson Professor ELGIN CLECKLEY RECEIVES ARMSTEAD ROBINSON BLACK STAFF AND FACULTY AWARD UVa School of Architecture is proud to announce that Assistant Professor Elgin Cleckley was recently recognized as the recipient of the Robinson Recognition Award for Faculty. This honor recognizes outstanding faculty who have contributed to diversity, equity and inclusion and have had a positive impact on the Black experience at the university. Elgin was jointly nominated by School of Architecture Dean Ila Berman and School of Nursing Dean In addition to the commitment and passion Dorrie Fontaine. he brings to all his work on equity across Grounds and the Charlottesville community, The Armstead Robinson Recognition Award for Faculty is given by the this award recognizes his signicant impact Black Faculty and Sta-Employee Resource Group (BFS-ERG) which on the lives of students - especially with serves as a representative voice for black faculty and sta at the minority students. Put simply by one of his University of Virginia in matters relative to the intellectual, professional, students, "Elgin Cleckley is by far the best and emotional betterment within the UVa community and beyond. The studio instructor I have ever had. He is award's namesake, the late Armstead Robinson (photo above), a passionate, both about design and about his former history professor, oversaw the initial development of the Carter students' excelling." G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, which helped identify, recruit and retain key African-American faculty at the University. - courtesy UVa School of Architecture https://www.arch.virginia.edu/news/elgin-cleckley-receives-armstead-r obinson-faculty-award “I have known Elgin for several years ever since we hired him to be part of a cluster faculty who would teach in the Schools of Nursing, Education and Architecture...Elgin has introduced many students and teachers at UVa and in community schools to the concept of design thinking, a methodology for people-centered problem-solving, a creative process to solve problems through empathy. He has taken this approach to addressing some of our community’s thorniest challenges, including race relations on grounds and in the community. He was quickly recognized and rewarded for his knowledge and talent across UVa. Elgin, other UVa faculty, and Charlot- tesville City Councilors received UVa’s Flash Funding for the New Vinegar Hill project. This Flash Funding specically looked for ideas that addressed unconscious bias and racial tension. The funders were especially interested in projects that connected the city and the university in tackling this challenge, to think about ways to “bridge the gaps between us in our culture in our time.” Dean Dorrie Fontaine University of Virginia School of Nursing School of Architecture’s Assistant Professor Elgin Cleckley, NEW VINEGAR along with faculty collaborators from the Batten School of HILL RECEIVES Leadership and Public Policy, recently received funding for their proposal, the New Vinegar Hill project. UVa's FLASH FUNDING Flash Funding program was announced in early Septem- ber to support projects that work toward, “achieving the culture and environment we value,” with a preference for ideas that address unconscious bias and racial tension. Vinegar Hill was a once The project team, including A-School students, Tarin standing African American Jones, My-Anh Nguyen, and Henok Waltengus, will help neighborhood in Charlottes- C-ville develop a community-driven checklist for ville removed during urban approaching future redevelopment. renewal by the City of Char- lottesville African-American led Redevelopment in Charlottesville - A "New Vinegar Hill,” Batten School (Social Entrepreneurship), McIntire School of Commerce, School of Architecture, PI: Mahoney, C., Etienne, B., Cleckley, E. ($25,000) Elgin Cleckley, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design Thinking and Lisa Reilly, Associate Professor of Architectural History, were awarded a collaborative grant for $17,837 in support their work on "Strategies of Interpretation II: Highland." JEFFERSON TRUST Elgin and Lisa will use the Jeerson Trust's support for a course, Strategies of Interpretation II: Highland and GRANT accompanying public lecture series - to create the opportunity for the University and Charlottesville community to interrogate further the issues of histori- STRATEGIES OF cal interpretation of the enslaved and its public pre- sentation. In collaboration with James Monroe’s High- INTERPRETATION II land, teams of interdisciplinary students will address the challenge of reinterpreting Highland in light of new discoveries about its history by creating an inter- JAMES MONROE’S pretive plan and models for new exhibitions. Using strategies of design thinking, they will learn how to HIGHLAND construct and present a revised narrative about Mon- roe’s plantation that addresses the needs and interests of diverse audiences. Strategies of Interpretation II: Highland, Jeerson Trust, awarded spring 2018, PI: Reilly, L., Cleckley, E, with Harper, S. (Highland) ($20,800). Mapping exhibits the documentation of the President’s Commission on Slavery, in a MAPPING collaborative, cross-disciplinary, student-led project, marking the achievements in EXHIBITION locating African American history at the University of Virginia. The exhibit features an orientation model with slate roof tiles produced by the enslaved, Project Director aided by graphic panels and laser etched tiles displaying the information provided in the UVA Walking Tour brochure on Enslaved African Americans at the University of Virginia. C ENSLAVED AFRICAN AMERICANS ar rs Henry Martin H d 3 i a ll o at the University of Virginia R R d y b This self-guided tour introduces some of the people, places, and stories related to early g u R According to oral history, Henry Martin was born UVA Walking Tour d N e b R n om a wc L at Monticello on July 4, 1826—the day Jefferson Ne Enslaved African Americans at the University n n o s died. He was sold to the Carr family at i r d a B U Jefferson’s estate sale in 1827 and until 1847 9 ni M 2 ve t rsit The University of Virginia utilized the labor of enslaved R y remained enslaved at a property in Albemarle A / ve n t u e S Alderman LIbrary / R County. In 1847, the Carrs hired out Mr. Martin t African Americans from the earliest days of its t 25 e 0B u UVA Chapel to Mrs. Dabney Carr, who ran a boarding m m construction in 1817 until the end of the American E house just north of the University. Until the Civil War. Most of the university’s first enslaved general emancipation in 1865, Martin hauled coal, delivered wood, 3 African American life at the University. Between 1817 and 1865 the University relied on and worked as a domestic laborer at her boarding house. In freedom, o laborers were rented from local slave-owners and P he took a job with the University as janitor and bell ringer, which he worked alongside whites and free blacks in all the wrote about in a letter to College Topics, a student publication that 4 Hotel A T tasks associated with constructing the Academical asked to report on his life story. Martin routinely awoke at 4 a.m. to 5 tend to his responsibilities. It was Martin who rang the bell to spread Village. When the first students arrived in March 1825, Mew Rotunda s A the alarm when the first wisps of smoke were spotted in the Rotunda lley Pavilion I 2 enslaved African Americans worked in the pavilions, r d 6 a fire of 1895. “I was as true to that bell as to my God,” Martin said in o 1 R 7 k hotels, and the Rotunda; maintained classrooms, a 1914 interview. And by his retirement in 1909, Martin had become c Pavilion III i g Pavilion II m a UVA icon, The student newspaper commented, “He was known u r laboratories, and the library; and served the daily needs o C c personally to more alumni than any living man.” M the labor of enslaved African Americans, whose presence was undeniably central to the of the students and faculty, especially in providing Pavilion IV o Pavilion V n cooking and cleaning services. This self-guided tour The Lawn Downtown Mall is an introduction to some of the significant people, 4 Anatomical Theater T i > Pavilion VI 9 places, and events that shaped the early history | 8 e g of African Americans at the University of Virginia.
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