Fall Gathering is October 22nd,

Multicultural campuses need inclusive building opportunities for students, faculty, and staff. Fall Gathering is our attempt to provide BC community with such an opportunity. Please check out the event.

http://www.facebook.com/groups.php#/event.php?eid=154367195671&ref=mf

Come and join us, renew old friendship, build new ones, and connect with our community over food and drink.

Help us choose a theme for the MLK Jr. Week of Celebrations, 2010

Multicultural Services staff welcomes you to Fall quarter, 2009.

We have created a poll with 5 themes that were chosen from well over a hundred themes submitted by Bellevue College community in Spring. We have put them in the poll on this blog. Please vote for your favorite theme. We will choose the theme with most votes.
The deadline to vote is October 9th, 2009. The poll will close at 5 pm.

We hope to offer an exciting program for the Martin Luther King Jr. Week of Celebrations, 2010 at Bellevue College.

Inclusion is more than a state of mind.

Inclusion is the new buzz word making the rounds of both the private and public sector organizations. At MCS we believe that it is more than just a state of mind. It requires hard work, is easy to abandon when the going gets tough.

Leaders at all levels of our multicultural society must answer the greatest challenge of our times. That is, how should we engage, involve, and inspire those who are different from us in their life experiences, values, and worldview and create safe, inclusive and mutually beneficial communities and societies globally.

Leadership is inherently a value-driven process. Our notions and assumptions about ethics, power, influence, relationship dynamics, organizational vision, change management, human motivation and workplace productivity, responsibility to constituents, integrity, and other functions and actions associated with leadership are influenced by our worldview. We carry our worldview into all human interactions and relationships. So the question for you to ponder today is; Are your cultural scripts and internal dialogues and are they genuinely inclusive? If not what do assumptions or values do you struggle with as a leader?

Multicultural Services at Bellevue College

Vision

MCS inspires to provide service-leadership that supports, sustains, and initiates institutional actions promoting academic, cultural and civic excellence, safety, inclusion and respect for all students. in general and diverse student populations in particular. MCS is committed to supporting all institutional efforts aimed at preparing BC students, faculty and staff to serve as multi-culturally knowledgeable, empathic, inclusive, and ethical citizens, and leaders of an interconnected diverse global community.

Mission Statement

The central purpose and role of Multi Cultural Services, Bellevue College is defined as: MCS is committed to its core mission of increasing multicultural student excellence in academics and college experience satisfaction through direct student services, institutional capacity building in the area of multicultural and intercultural competencies and consciousness, and promoting campus wide inclusive community building efforts that increase students’, faculty, and staff’s sense of safety, social justice, and belonging.

Core Values

The core values governing Multi Cultural Services, Bellevue College's development will include the following:

Reliability

Empathy

Social Justice

Pluralism

Empower

Courteous

Together

MCS staff makes a promise of continuously improving our services and capacity to support and assist diverse student populations in reaching their academic goals, and increased sense of satisfaction with their college experience. We commit to make our very best effort on a daily basis to implement the core values in all our business and relational processes when we work with students, faculty, staff, and all other internal and external members of the Bellevue College community.