Alvin Evans serves as Interim Vice President of Human Resources for Kent State University. He is, with Edna Chun, award-winning authors and human resource and diversity leaders with extensive experience in complex, multi-campus systems of higher education. Two of their books, "Are the Walls Really Down? Behavioral and Organizational Barriers to Faculty and Staff Diversity" (2007) and "Bridging the Diversity Divide: Globalization and Reciprocal Empowerment in Higher Education" (2009) were recipients of the prestigious Kathryn G. Hansen Publication Award by the national College and University Pr...