{"id":8119,"date":"2022-03-07T20:39:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/?post_type=furman-update&#038;p=8119"},"modified":"2022-03-07T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:39:13","slug":"gordon-l-blackwell-alumni-service-award-dr-idella-glenn-84","status":"publish","type":"furman-update","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/news\/gordon-l-blackwell-alumni-service-award-dr-idella-glenn-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon L. Blackwell Alumni Service Award: Dr. Idella Glenn \u201984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gordon L. Blackwell Alumni Service Award<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Idella Glenn \u201984<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Recognizes an individual who has dedicated extraordinary service to Furman or the greater community, advancing the university\u2019s position as a private institution with a public mission.<\/p>\n<p><\/em>Idella Glenn is associate vice president for Equity, Inclusion and Community Impact at the University of Southern Maine. Previously, she served as special advisor on Inclusivity and Diversity at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Idella is a collaborative leader with 29 years of higher education experience \u2013 the last 24 years focused on leading diversity and inclusion initiatives, including positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, Furman University, and Spartanburg Community College. She has earned designation as a Certified Diversity Professional through the Institute for Diversity Certification and is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory. She is also a graduate of The Riley Institute Diversity Leaders Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Idella is a member of the National Coalition Building Institute Board of Directors and a senior trainer with the NCBI Carolina Coalition. She served on the National Advisory Council of the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity. She also served as president of the South Carolina Professional Association for Access and Equity from 2002-2004 and is a graduate of Leadership Greenville.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Furman Class of 1984, Idella graduated with a Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics. She continued her education at the University of South Carolina where she earned a master\u2019s in higher education administration in 1996, and at Clemson University, where she earned a doctoral degree in educational leadership in 2008. Idella and her husband, Michael Glenn \u201982, have two daughters, Septima and Natalie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/668406390\/647f24246d\">Watch the 2022 Bell Tower Ball video on <strong>Idella Glenn \u201984<\/strong> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon L. Blackwell Alumni Service Award Idella Glenn \u201984 Recognizes an individual who has dedicated extraordinary service to Furman or the greater community, advancing the university\u2019s position as a private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8120,"template":"","update-categories":[575],"class_list":["post-8119","furman-update","type-furman-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","furman-update-category-alumni-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/furman-update"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"furman-update-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/update-categories?post=8119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}