Leaders from Christian-affiliated universities and colleges all over the country converged in Oregon last week to discuss diversity and inclusion on their campuses.
Institutions of higher learning affiliated with churches remain predominantly white,, but an ongoing movement to diversify student bodies has made some headway in the past two decades. In 1999, 82.2 percent of all students who attended schools in the CCCU were white. By 2018, that number had dropped to 62.2 percent. Similar to nationwide demographics, the fastest-growing student group in the CCCU is Hispanic or Latinx people.
Yet many still see lower proportions of non-white students, faculty and administration members as a problem. Of the nearly 200 schools part of CCCU, only one university has a president who is non-white, according to Religious News Service.At the conference, Hoogstra moderated a panel of five Christian college presidents to discuss encouraging racial and ethnic diversity on their campuses—and all of the panelists were white.
The conference"addressed providing outreach to undocumented students, offering support for first-generation students, and hiring more faculty of color," the Religious News Service reported. This year's event was the"highest attended Diversity Conference to date, following previous conferences in 2015 and 2016, at North Park University and Nyack College ,"Thousands of students, supporters and invited guests sing songs of Christian praise before Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers the convocation in the Vines Center on the campus of Liberty University January 18, 2016 in Lynchburg, Virginia.
"It raises the question of what type of disciples we're forming, and what kingdom we're educating them to be obedient to," Salter McNeil said.Related Stories
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