Commitment to All People
"As members of the Milligan College community and in faithfulness to the
teaching of Scripture, we commit ourselves to honoring and broadening the
diversity of our community and to treating every person with respect,
dignity, and love. By reflecting the diversity of God's kingdom, the College
bears witness to that kingdom and equips students to serve in a diverse and
interdependent world."1
Milligan College believes that racial and ethnic diversity in our student
body, faculty, and staff is important for us to fulfill our primary mission:
to provide a quality education where men and women are prepared as
servant-leaders. We believe that:
- Diversity enriches the educational experience. We learn from those
whose experiences, beliefs, and perspectives are different from our own,
and these lessons can be taught best in a richly diverse intellectual and
social environment.
- Diversity promotes personal growth and a healthy society. Diversity
challenges stereotyped preconceptions; it encourages critical thinking;
and it helps students learn to communicate effectively with people of
varied backgrounds.
- Diversity strengthens communities and the workplace. Education within
a diverse setting prepares students to become good citizens in an
increasingly complex, pluralistic society; it fosters mutual respect and
teamwork; and it helps build communities whose members are judged by the
quality of their character and their contributions.2
- Diversity reflects God's kingdom. The college's view on diversity is
shaped by its Christian faith. The Gospel's call is always to move beyond
our culture-imposed, self-imposed boundaries and to understand that people
whom we may have previously labeled "others" are created in God's image.
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Promoting Diversity
Because of these beliefs, Milligan College desires to reach out and make
a concerted effort to build a healthy and diverse learning environment
appropriate to our mission. The college relies on academic programs,
educational services, and scholarships to recruit and retain a diverse
student body. Current initiatives include:
- The Betty Goah Scholarship for Advancing
Diversity at Milligan College.
- Development of a Diversity Services Office to recruit traditionally
underrepresented students and to enhance a social, cultural and
educational environment that embraces ethnic diversity.
- Multicultural Emphasis Week
- Student Multicultural Affairs Committee. The mission of the
Multi-Cultural Affairs Committee is to make Milligan a genuinely
multicultural Christian community. To be such a community is to affirm the
worth of all human beings and to affirm the value and significance of the
human cultures and communities which have developed over the centuries. It
is to affirm a biblical version of the Kingdom of God, in which people
from "every tribe and language and people and nation" are gathered (Rev.
5:9). It is also to acknowledge the extent to which racism, intolerance,
and other sins have contributed, and continue to contribute to the failure
of this endeavor -- even within our own Milligan community.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
- Ethnic Studies requirement - see Catalog
- Faculty Diversity Committee
- Teacher Diversity Program (Tennessee Higher Education
Commission)
For more information about these initiatives, please contact
423.461.8981.
Milligan College does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability,
gender, color, national and ethnic origin, or political affiliation in
administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship
and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
1 Milligan
College Commitment to Non-Discrimination, Milligan College Catalog.
2 "On
the importance of diversity in higher education." Farleigh Dickinson
University.
3
Higgins, Susan, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Missions, Milligan
College.
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