PROVO — Brigham Young University administrators have added a Native American professor to a new committee formed to examine race and inequality at the university.
The move comes in response to letters and a petition raising the concerns of students, faculty, staff and alumni that said the original committee lacked representation.
Michalyn Steele, a professor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School and a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians of New York, will be the ninth member of the committee. Her appointment was confirmed by university administration June 25, a week after the original June 17 announcement of the new committee’s appointment.