The University of North Texas recently selected Kevin R. Carreathers to be the university’s new director of diversity planning. Carreathers will join UNT’s Division of Institutional Equity and Diversity in June.

Carreathers is currently the assistant to the provost and director of diversity at Salisbury University in Maryland.

Previously, he served as the associate dean of students at the University of Memphis and was director of multicultural services at Texas A&M University.

Carreathers holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from UNT and a master’s degree in guidance and counseling from Prairie View A&M University.

He has taken courses toward his doctorate at the University of North Texas, Texas A&M Uni­versity and the University of Memphis.

While Carreathers was director of multicultural services at Texas A&M, the institution maintained the highest freshman retention rate for minority students in Texas for 10 consecutive years and was recognized by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for creating a positive campus climate among public universities and colleges.

Carreathers is a founder of the Southwestern Black Student Lead­ership Conference, the largest student-run conference in the nation, co-founder of the Diversity Education Institute and founder of the Multicultural Affairs Institute.

He served as a strategist to assist Texas A&M and other Texas state universities to find alternative solutions to maintain minority recruitment and retention programs.