, has been elected president of the Association for College and University Religious Affairs (ACURA).
ACURA is a national collegium of deans of religious life, chaplains and directors of religious affairs, and currently includes 40 institutions of higher education. The role of religion within the academy is the central focus of this ecumenical and interfaith organization.
Blanks served as a U.S. Navy chaplain for 10 years before becoming assistant chaplain at Brown University in 1994. She joined the Princeton staff in 1997. A graduate of Rutgers University (Douglass College), she earned a master of divinity degree from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta and a master of theology degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. She is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
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