Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Dec. 21 at Incarnation Lutheran Church, 1510 W. Keefe Ave., for Diane Pollard, professor emerita from the Department of Educational Psychology.
Pollard, who was 71, joined the faculty in 1976 and served as an outstanding member of the UWM community for more than 30 years.
Pollard was UWM’s first recipient of the UW System’s Women of Color Award in 1995. She was also the 2009 Ernest Spaights Plaza Award recipient and was honored with a plaque on Spaights Plaza. She was the recipient of UWM’s Distinguished Public Service Award and served as the director of the UW System Center for the Study of Minorities and Disadvantaged from 1979-1985.
