Christine Taylor

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G. Christine Taylor (born c. 1957) is a former radio executive and current vice president and associate provost for diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Alabama.

Taylor graduated from Harriman High School in Roane County, Tennessee in 1975. She went on to complete a bachelor of arts in mass communications and media at Middle Tennessee State University in 1979. She began her radio career at WMOT-FM in Murfreesboro. She also worked with the Southern Educational Communications Association and as program director for KUHF-FM, Houston Public Radio, in Houston, Texas from 1985 to 1987. She earned her master's degree in telecommunications management in at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 1989.

While at Ohio University, Taylor was hired as Director of Multicultural Programs. She was subsequently promoted to Associate Director of Residence Life, and later to Associate Vice President for Finance and Administration, and in 2005 to the role of Assistant to the President for Diversity. Her work to develop and implement outreach and support programs, including need-based scholarships and new courses of study, helped the university realize a 58% growth in multicultural students enrolled as freshmen.

She has also completed a management development program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1997 and a fellowship at the American Council for Education at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia in 2003.

In 2008 Taylor was hired as associate vice President for institutional diversity for Miami College in Oxford, Ohio. A year later, she was named the inaugural vice provost for diversity and chief diversity officer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. In that position, she oversaw several resource offices and cultural centers and served on the president's cabinet. She left that role in 2015 and worked as an independent consultant and speaker before being hired by the University of Alabama in June 2017.

Act of Alabama 2024-34, passed during the 2024 Alabama legislative session, barred public colleges in Alabama from sponsoring any DEI programs or maintaining offices, locations or departments which do so, except as may be required by their accreditation.

Publications

  • Taylor, G. Christine (1997) A Few in a Thousand: A study of the Experiences of African American Female General Managers of Broadcast Radio and Television Stations. Ph.D. dissertation. Ohio University.

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