MAY 1-7, 2023 SPRINGFIELD BUSINESS JOURNAL · 27 ON THE RECORD Get $1,000 for your business when you try us for 90 days. (417) 886-1330 www.regent.bank Daniel Ogunyemi: Community colleges are intended to serve every student. has changed its approach to DEI. Joan Barrett, vice chancellor for student affairs, said a realignment announced in March means its former DEI director, Daniel Ogunyemi, is now the college director for global engagement and opportunity. Barrett said the office adds international student services to Ogunyemi’s purview. “We’re always looking for efficiencies, and expanding Daniel’s role was a good move,” Barrett said. Ogunyemi said students benefit from a global view. “One of the things we learned from COVID is how connected we are to southwest Missouri and the state of Missouri and also globally,” Ogunyemi said. “We want to be able to provide more perspectives, more opportunities.” He added that international exposure makes OTC students more job-ready and more able to engage with people of various backgrounds. Ogunyemi said the realignment expands OTC’s ability to serve all students. “Diversity means everybody,” he said. “Community colleges are meant to serve everyone, including those on the margins.” Smart said throughout education, leaders are reevaluating what to call their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. “It’s not to do a workaround to any prohibition, but to more accurately describe what’s going on,” he said. At MSU, the office is called the Division for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and is led by Algerian Hart. Smart noted that outside of the budget bill, there are some other pieces of legislation that have raised concern, including a bill that would prohibit DEI instruction. Such a bill is a threat to academic freedom, which is important to the university, he said. In an interview with public radio station KSMU, Smart said that accreditors in health care and teacher education require diversity instruction, since doctors, therapists and teachers have to be able to teach to students from all different backgrounds. “We don’t want to have unaccredited health care or teacher ed classes or graduates,” he said, noting he would be watching that legislation closely. SPS and OTC officials declined to offer comment on the budget bill or other legislation. • We never viewed it as an evil ideology that focuses on collective guilt or privilege or anything like that. We want everyone at the table.” —Clif Smart, Missouri State University Springfield. Central Trust Bank to Kinsey and Cade Rogers; 1,250,000; sec. 31, twp. 29, range 20. Central Trust Bank to Dametra and Travis Chastain; 125,000; L13, Pickwick Place. DAS Acquisition Co. LLC to Kirk Pierce; 128,627; L63, Inside second addition. DAS Acquisition Co. LLC to Allyson Russell and Michael George; 463,883; L56, Lakes at Wild Horse, Phase V. DAS Acquisition Co. LLC to Jeffrey and Shanna Bluml; 108,000; L228, Country Side Estates, Unit 4. Encore Bank to Amanda Potter; 265,600; L8, Stone Creek, Phase II. Endeavor Capital LLC to Amanda and Eric Gribben; 170,940; L39, Villa Park Meadows. Endeavor Capital LLC to Darby and Timothy Bowler; 219,780; L6, Park Crest Village, Blocks J-K. FCS Financial to CCW Properties LLC; 261,000; sec. 18, twp. 31, range 21, SE. Federal Savings Bank to Chilian and Christian Dixon; 392,000; L10, English Oaks, Phase IV. Freedom Bank of Southern Missouri to Tammy and Larry Conner; 150,000; sec. 8, twp. 30, range 23, NW. Gershman Mortgage to Ronald Fouch and Jenifer De Abreu; 228,000; L21, Strasbourg Estates, Phase I. Gershman Mortgage to Steven and Kelsey Henderson; 162,011; L9, Crighton & Kime, second addition. Gershman Mortgage to Dawn and Richard Fucillo; 175,000; L11, Olde Savannah, Phase II. Great Southern Bank to Cristina and Bogdan Constantin; 100,000; L28, Orchard Crest, eighth addition. Great Southern Bank to Merideth and Andrew Stapp; 170,000; L10, Jaybird Meadows. Great Southern Bank to Summer and Derek Hunter; 140,000; L1,5, Willow Water. Guaranteed Rate Affinity LLC to Hannah Hurst and Benjamin Greene; 246,525; L120, Cloverdale addition. Guaranty Bank to Jeremy and Karen Jones; 223,125; sec. 14, twp. 31, range 20, NE and SE. Guaranty Bank to Casey Chastain; 229,680; L54, Lakes at Shuyler Ridge, Phase II. Guaranty Bank to Kimberly and David Grant; 120,000; sec. 22, twp. 30, range 24, NW. DEEDS OF TRUST, from page 23 Continued on page 28
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