 Centre has an abiding commitment to serve the varied needs of the College community, to actively promote an inclusive environment, and to facilitate multicultural leadership development through programs, workshops, and
special events. Centre recruits a diverse student body as an integral part of
building a culturally diverse community.
Centre’s 2008 first-year class was:
• 50 percent male and 50 percent female
• 15 percent students of color (2 percent Asian,
5 percent African-American,
2 percent Latino/a,
2 percent other, and 4 percent international)
• socio-economically diverse (with nearly 60 percent of students need-eligible)
• 8 percent first-generation college students
• joining a community of learning that represents 40 states and 14 foreign countries
• led by a faculty and staff that is 11 percent people of color
Office of Diversity Education
Centre College’s mission is to prepare students, in a close and caring community, for lives of learning, leadership and service in a global society. The Diversity Office works to increase the diversity of the faculty, staff, and students so that the College will more fully reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of this global society. As part of this effort, Centre supports a continuing dialogue for the entire campus community that takes different forms, from cultural programming and academic coursework to collaboration with student and community groups.
Recent Diversity Programming
• Martin Luther King Jr. celebration (annual event)
• The Gift of the Jews, lecture by Thomas Cahill
• Bavarian Philharmonic Orchestra
• Beloved Community, world premiere of Herman Daniel Farrell III’s play about the legacy of civil rights
• Tango Fire
• A Case of Recognition: Civil Unions and Gay Marriages
• Newport Jazz Festival
• Russia’s Moiseyev Dance Company
• Smokey Joe’s Cafe
• The Evolution vs. Creationism Debate
• When Women Were Priests: History at the Intersection of Gender and Religion
• End Sweatshops in
the Fields
• Ladysmith Black
Mambazo
• Natalie Cole
• The A.I.D.S. Crisis
in Africa
• Japan’s Kodo drummers
• Heritage Festival (annual event)
• Vlach Quartet Prague
• Piotr Setkiewicz: Personal Aspects of the Holocaust
• Islam and Violence
• Eyes of Babylon, a gay U.S. Marine’s personal journey through the war in Iraq
• Leland D. Melvin, astronaut
• The Wall That Heals (Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
• Irish and Celtic Tradition in Roman Catholicism
• Panel Discussion on Local Latin Immigration
• Ballet Folklórico de Mexico
• Aretha Franklin
• Jack Levin: Serial Killers, Hate Crimes, and More
Curriculum
Although Centre offers many traditional majors, you have the opportunity to make your education uniquely yours by creating your own major from regularly offered courses as well as from faculty-approved, self-designed courses. Faculty members and staffers stand ready to help you at many points along the way.
Below is a list of recent class offerings that form the elective basis
for a self-designed major in Diversity Studies:
• Language and Culture
• Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
• Anthropology of Gender
• Native Peoples of North America
• The Maya
• Peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa
• Race and Ethnicity
• Modes of African-American Narrative
• Seeing East Africa through its Schools and Literature
• Women and Spirituality
• Culture of Early America
• Gender and Politics
• Women and Development
• African Lives
• Buddhist Thought
• Islam
• Poverty and Homelessness
Diverse Organizations for a Diverse Student Body
Student organizations and events on campus provide valuable sources of cultural enrichment, personal growth, lasting friendships, and solidarity. Involvement can help you learn to work more effectively within groups and with other organizations while also helping you develop leadership skills. A number of offices and organizations provide guidance, advice, support, and opportunities to students, including:
• Office of Academic Advising (setting national
benchmarks for first-year students in a supportive campus environment)
• Diversity Student Union (D.S.U.)
• Bonner Program
• Whitney Young Scholars Program Summer Institute
• B-GLAD (Bisexuals, Gays, Lesbians, & Allies for Dignity)
• Office of Religious Life
• Centro Latino
• N.A.A.C.P.
• International Student Association
• Office of Admission Diversity Days
• Posse
• National Science Foundation Research Opportunities
The Centre Commitment
Students who meet the College's academic and social expectations are guaranteed an internship, study abroad, and graduation in four years–or the College will provide up to an additional year of study tuition–free.
For further information about diversity at Centre, contact
J.H. Atkins
600 West Walnut Street
Danville, Kentucky 40422
(859) 238-6223
jh.atkins@centre.edu
For general information about Centre,
write, call, or e-mail
Admission Office
1-800-423-6236
admission@centre.edu
www.centre.edu
updated on
9/29/08
by rusnak@centre.edu
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