Ms. Barbara J. Lawrence, J.D., M.P.A., was selected as Rider University's inaugural Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion/Chief Diversity Officer (CDO). Ms. Lawrence previously served in a similar role at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., where she developed the institution’s five-year strategic diversity, equity and inclusion plan and served as an associate professor in the criminal justice and community and justice studies programs.