Racial Rights at Milligan University

Thank you, Angela, for judging your professors by the color of their skin.

As a victim of impudent racial insult from a faculty member during my time as a student, these conversations are long overdue. Accountability and change is needed. Time for the institution to show the Christian way through action to substantiate its preaching.

I hope that Milligan will be intentional in it quest to Listen, understand and provide improvement to the university’s diversity.

This is our calling as disciples. Milligan College, '02, Duke Divinity '06

I value the education I received at Milligan - except for the lack of instruction, implication, or conversation about what it means to be anti-racism not just “not racist.” I was embarrassingly old before I made those connections. Milligan is even older, and it’s lack of leadership and engagement in this area is mortifying. Christian education cannot possibly be “the hope of the world” if it fails to recognize and respond to systemic racism and racial disparity. Christ challenged oppressive systems and power structures, and stood with the marginalized. Milligan should be a role model for doing likewise. God in your mercy, hear our prayers.

I attended for three years and never had a professor who was not white.

Fully support this.

B.A., 2001; M.Div., 2005

The faithful way of Jesus requires hard work of tearing down boundaries and walls that we have built. Hoping Milligan will do better to reflect this faithfulness.

I learned a lot during my time at Milligan, but the school still has a long way to go toward reconciliation.

I appreciate the thoughtful and thorough approach.

Class of 1980.

It is my prayer that all institutions would embrace best practices such as these as a starting point for transparency and initiative toward racial understanding and equity.

Yes!

I love this. Milligan is making steps in the right direction.

I fully support the continued work of Milligan University to become a truly inclusive campus and not simply one with a multicultural veneer.

“Everything rises and fall on Leadership”.

The building of teams and committees for the sake of diversity at a university in which 99% of the staff, faculty, and trustees are white is evidence of the deafness to which Milligan pretends to not have. We must seek outside help and guidance from Black Americans by purposefully committing to the hiring and retention of Black faculty and staff. It also includes not tokenizing those few people of color who have been placed on the board of trustees and in the few other positions held. As an alumnus of Milligan twice, I will no longer seek the advancement of the institution through monetary means or recruitment until such goals are met.

I fully support this and deeply appreciate the thought that went into it. Christian commitment calls us to lead in efforts toward a deeper understanding of the way People of Color continue to be treated unfairly. White supremacy is an ideology and practice that should sicken us all and is contrary to true Christianity. Let’s lead the way to bring it to an end.

Alum of the class of 1990 - hoping I can once again feel proud of this institution.