Dawn Pleas inducted into Black Educators Hall of Fame

Dawn Pleas, vice president for special projects and planning at Southwestern College, has been inducted into the Black Educators Hall of Fame. The event was held on Saturday, Feb. 25, in the Rhatigan Student Center on the campus of Wichita State University. The Kansas Black Educators Hall of Fame, founded in 2017, now has 54 members, most of them from Wichita. Members of the hall, a project of the non-profit Art That Touches You Heart, are selected through a community-led nomination and voting process. Pleas has been at Southwestern College for almost 30 years and was nominated by SC board of trustee member Greg Cole.