Billboard checked in with Harvey Mason Jr., chair of the board of trustees and interim CEO of the Academy, and Laura Segura Mueller, vice president, membership & industry relations.
Harvey Mason Jr. attends the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center on Jan. 26, 2020 in Los Angeles.
"These are things we've been working on for a while now—well over a year," says Mueller, who has been, and will remain, the Academy's point person working with the task force. "These are Academy protocols at this point." The Academy is also exploring changing its governance manual so that the board of trustees would officially have responsibility for the Academy's progress on issues of diversity and inclusion. "The task force wants us to change our governance manual [so that the board oversees diversity efforts] as an official part of their duties," Mueller says. "Both changing of the charter and changing of our governance manual lies within our planning and governance committees.
Mason became interim president/CEO when the Academy's executive committee voted to put Dugan on administrative leave in January. He doesn't appear to want the job on a permanent basis.
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