ROCKFORD — Denise Pearson hopes to raise the level of community and parent engagement at Rockford Public Schools when she joins the Rockford School Board on Dec. 8. The School Board chose Pearson to ...

It's been more than a month since the newly created Greater Rockford Chamber of Commerce released the names of its all-white 15-member board of directors to the public while acknowledging the need for ...

The race for Rockford School Board Subdistrict A pits current board member Denise Pearson against former board member Lisa Jackson. Subdistrict A, located on the city's southwest side, is bounded ...

Denise Pearson, Ph.D., is vice chancellor and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer for Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education. She has more than 25 years of experience in higher ...

For more than six decades, higher education has applied race-conscious approaches to achieve admissions goals — initially to mitigate the consequences of segregation and later to defend the benefits ...