© 2025 90.3 KAZU
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Middlebury Institute to shutter diversity office, park closures for triathlon

KAZU | By Elena Neale-Sacks
Published April 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM PDT
The Irvine Auditorium on the Middlebury Institute for International Studies campus in Monterey. The front rows are empty, but the back rows are relatively full with a crowd of about 50. At the podium is speaker Nicholas McCreary, who is introducing the movie on the projector screen, Bamako (2006).
Janelle Salanga
/
KAZU News
In this photo from Jan. 31, 2024, Nicholas McCreary, the first institutional justice, equity, diversity and inclusion officer of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, hosts the opening night of the Black History Month Film Festival. MIIS says it is disbanding the JEDI office.

In today's newscast, the Middlebury Institute of International Studies will disband its office of Institutional Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. And, Lake San Antonio will be partially closed starting Thursday for a festival and triathlon.
Tags
KAZU News Local NewsMonterey Bay TodayMiddlebury InstituteDiversity
Elena Neale-Sacks
Elena is an Emmy award-winning researcher, reporter, and producer. Before joining KAZU, they worked as a podcast producer at The Oregonian. Their reporting and research has been featured on NPR, KQED, Netflix, Reveal, CalMatters, and more. Elena is an alum of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and UC Santa Cruz.
See stories by Elena Neale-Sacks