{"id":5226,"date":"2020-08-04T11:04:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2020-08-04T11:18:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:18:20","slug":"former-head-football-coach-turner-gill-former-nfl-player-and-lu-alumnus-kelvin-edwards-return-to-liberty-in-diversity-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5226","title":{"rendered":"Former Head Football Coach Turner Gill, Former NFL player and LU alumnus Kelvin Edwards return to Liberty in diversity roles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Liberty head football coach Turner Gill and Liberty alumnus Kelvin Edwards will return to Liberty as members of the executive team, the school has announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gill will serve as Executive Vice President of Diversity, Development &amp; Inclusion while Edwards will be Executive Vice President of Management Efficiencies &amp; Diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPresident Jerry Falwell and I talked back in November about returning for a role in Development,\u201d Gill said. \u201cWe had been working out details, but I called him in June to see if we could change that to Diversity &amp; Inclusion. I am thrilled to be returning and to serve in my new role. I have long shared a vision with President Falwell about increasing the minority population at Liberty and building a program where we build leaders among all racial groups. We want the future leaders in our country and internationally to be trained at a top-notch Christian university so that people are exposed to the Gospel, are educated with Christian values, and are living out their purpose according to God\u2019s will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aseaofred.com\/turner-gill-kelvin-edwards-return-to-liberty-in-diversity-roles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Liberty head football coach Turner Gill and Liberty alumnus Kelvin Edwards will return to Liberty as members of the executive team, t&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5226\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Head Football Coach Turner Gill, Former NFL player and LU alumnus Kelvin Edwards return to Liberty in diversity roles<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-sports","tag-former-head-football-coach-turner-gill-former-nfl-player-and-lu-alumnus-kelvin-edwards-return-to-liberty-in-diversity-roles","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gil-kelvin.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1mi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5229,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/5229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}