Diversity Statement

Diversity Defined:

Diversity refers to the recognition and appreciation of differences and similarity across a variety of overlapping domains, including race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation, religion, spirituality, worldview, geography, age, family status, and life experience.

Diversity Statement:

The Pfeiffer University Graduate School strives to cultivate and sustain an inclusive and intellectually rigorous environment that embraces difference across domains (e.g., race, age, etc.). These areas are explored within a context of cooperation, shared responsibility, and mutual respect that promotes learning, personal growth, and service through culturally competent community engagement.

The Marriage & Family Therapy Program at Pfeiffer University seeks to further these objectives* by:

• Integrating diversity issues across the curriculum.
• Teaching evidenced-based, culturally sensitive treatment approaches.
• Maintaining a diverse group of faculty members.
• Conducting activities (e.g., publications) that contribute to the scientific literature on diversity issues.
• Recruiting and enrolling students that reflect the diversity within the community.
• Cultivating a culture of authentic growth and inquiry that expands and deepens the compassion, awareness, and worldviews of our faculty and students.

*Outcome measures for these objectives include the Professional Performance Evaluation, Non-Academic Personal/Professional Readiness Evaluation, course syllabi, student and faculty demographic information, faculty publications and presentations, Student Exit Interviews, and student evaluation of faculty reports.

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