Freedom Is Worth Struggle Bonnie Thornton Dill Accepts the University of Marylands Highest Honor
News Source : Ms. Magazine
News Summary
- Bonnie Thornton Dill is a professor emerita and former dean of the College of Arts and Humanities.
- The University of Maryland awarded her the President’s Medal, its highest honor.
- Thornton Dill: My thoughts upon receiving this honor are captured in the words of Pulitzer Prize-winner and Illinois poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks.
- I accept this award today taking Brooks’ words as a call to action for those of us striving to enact values of equity and social justice, she says.
Bonnie Thornton Dill speaks at University of Maryland convocation after receiving the Presidents Medal on Sept. 17, 2025. (University of Maryland)Editors note In September 2025, the University of [+5136 chars]
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