Apply for Promoting Human Equality Scholarship award

Promoting Human Equality

Scholarship Award $500

Requirements:

Each recipient must be a graduating senior accepted to a four-year institution (College or University). The student must write a minimum of 250 words describing how they have promoted human equality in their settings. Please share examples of projects you have participated in to promote equity in your school or community.

Please email your essay by May 20, 2022, to: prsmyre@lexingtonnc.gov. All awardees will be honored during the June 2022 Human Relations Commission meeting.

Contact Information

Human Relations Commission

City of Lexington

Dr. Patricia R. Smyre

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department

Mailing Address

28. W. Center Street, Lexington, NC 27292

336-953-6557

Mission Statement
Human Relations Commission promotes equality of opportunity in the community's economic,
education, governmental and cultural life for all its residents without regard to race, creed, national origin, gender, age, physical or mental disability and strives to eliminate discrimination in all these areas.

HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION

Human Relations Powers and Duties

1. Study and recommend strategies for preventing potential human relations problems and crises and promoting good relations.

2. Identify, study, and document areas of human need (housing, employment, education, transportation, health, etc.) in the city and recommend strategies for meeting those needs.

3. Serve as a forum for hearing individual grievances and complaints relative to human relations to solve problems of this kind.

4. Endeavor to make the commission itself a model of good human relations at work.

5. Be available as a conciliatory body for resolving tension and conflict in emergencies and crises should they arise.

6. Regularly communicate the commission's work, observations, and recommendations to the mayor, city council, and city manager for their action.

7. Promote equality of opportunity in the community's economic, educational, governmental, and cultural life for all residents without regard to race, creed, national origin, sex, age, or persons with disabilities and work to eliminate discrimination on any of these biases.

The commission meets on the third Tuesday of each month.