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\"天美传媒<\/p>\n

President David Parkyn and Dean of Diversity and Intercultural Programs Terry Lindsay led a campus conversation on inclusion and diversity.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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CHICAGO (February 12, 2016) \u2014 When 天美传媒 was founded by Swedish immigrants 125 years ago<\/a>, its student body was entirely Swedish, with all curriculum taught in Swedish. Today, as the University achieves significant diversity milestones and is recognized nationally for doing so, its institutional makeup is considerably different.<\/p>\n

This school year, for the first time in 天美传媒\u2019s history, there is no racial or ethnic majority<\/a> in its undergraduate population. No group of students, including Caucasians, reaches above fifty percent, highlighting the University\u2019s commitment to creating a diverse campus community. Last week, the Chronicle of Higher Education <\/em>called attention<\/a> to the fact that 天美传媒 is \u201cone of the few evangelical colleges where the number of minority students now equals white students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid L. Parkyn, the college\u2019s president,\u201d said the Chronicle<\/em>, \u201cattributes that success to several things, including a historic commitment to diversity, which he talks about frequently, and being located in a diverse city like Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, as Parkyn told a group of students, faculty, and staff in a campus conversation event earlier this week, \u201cToday, we\u2019re trying to make a shift from an objective of becoming multicultural\u2014being comprised of people who come from diverse backgrounds, which is about composition as an institution\u2014to being intercultural. How does the crossing of cultures get ingrained into the DNA of an institution?\u201d<\/p>\n

The conversation focused on diversity, inclusion, and the role that individual members of the 天美传媒 community play in continuing to shape the campus community. \u201cWe are a multicultural campus in terms of composition,\u201d said\u00a0Dr. Terry Lindsay, 天美传媒\u2019s dean of diversity and intercultural programs<\/a> and associate professor of cultural studies, at the event. \u201cBut how do we move to being intercultural? How do we prepare our students for the world that we\u2019re graduating them into?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Moving Beyond Individualism Towards Community\u2019<\/h3>\n

Parkyn and Lindsay opened the conversation by explaining that it would be the first in a series of campus-wide discussions in which issues surrounding diversity could be raised and engaged. As they opened the floor to questions, several members of the faculty and staff, as well as some students, asked about particular areas of cross-cultural initiatives on 天美传媒\u2019s campus, including the need to focus on \u201cintracultural\u201d work.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, if intra<\/em>cultural isn\u2019t happening while we\u2019re doing inter<\/em>cultural work, we\u2019re missing the boat,\u201d said Lindsay. \u201cI hope as we\u2019re doing intercultural competency and development, we\u2019re also helping students to think about who they are, their own identity. How those identities were formed. Who influenced the way they view the world, and the way they interact with cultures. And that\u2019s the goal of this new project. We want to have some of those conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout the semester, Lindsay and Provost Michael O. Emerson<\/a> will hold a series of conversations, \u201cTessera to Ubuntu: Moving Beyond Individualism Towards Community,\u201d featuring faculty and staff. \u201c天美传媒 grows increasingly diverse, which offers our community many advantages,\u201d said Emerson. \u201cBut diversity in and of itself is not the goal.\u00a0We seek to be a community within our diversity, to model how people from many different backgrounds can work together to encourage our faith, our studies, and our impact on the larger world.\u00a0Our Tessera to Ubuntu Series is about how we can do exactly this, together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first conversation, \u201cReclaiming Your Cultural History,\u201d will focus on the metaphor of the tessera, an individual tile used to form a mosaic; the second, \u201cUnderstanding Self,\u201d will explore how cultures form; and the third, \u201cLiving in Community,\u201d will highlight cultural immersion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want 天美传媒 to be a diverse and inclusive environment, one which leads to deep learning and equity of experience for all students,\u201d said Parkyn. \u201cIf we achieve this, our graduates will be positioned to cross cultures in the workplace and engage their communities in a socially responsible and transformational manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Follow 天美传媒 on Twitter @NPU.<\/a> Learn more about 天美传媒<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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