Mission: The Office of Multicultural Affairs was established to promote awareness, understanding, and acceptance of the value of cultural diversity among administrators, faculty, staff and students at Bluegrass Community and Technical College District; while providing an atmosphere which is open and respectful to everyone at the college community.
Vice President for Office of Multicultural Affairs serves as a catalyst to:
- Recruit, retain, graduate and/or transfer multicultural students
- Provide ongoing diversity and cultural enrichment for faculty, administrators, staff and students
- Assist multicultural students in their day-to-day access and ongoing concerns of inclusion within the community college setting
- Develop continuous outreach efforts to serve underrepresented populations
- Promote race relations and the exchange of equity ideas in the college setting
"A college is just a community, a place where sacredness of the person is honored and where diversity is aggressively pursued."--The Carnegie Foundation
BCTCD Multicultural Affairs Staff:
Vice President Charlene Walker Bluegrass Community and Technical College 470 Cooper Drive, 206E Oswald Building Lexington, KY 40506-0235 859/246-6438 or x56438 Fax: 859/246-4676 charlene.walker@kctcs.edu International Student Services Coordinator Wendell Sparks 859/246-6437 or x56437 wendell.sparks@kctcs.edu Administrative Assistant Vera Foushee 859/246-6439 or x56439 vera.foushee@kctcs.edu | Diversity Outreach Coordinator James Chambers 859/246-6781 or x56781 james.chambers@kctcs.edu Cultural Arts Services Outreach Coordinator Hasan Davis 859/246-6376 or x56376 hasan.davis@kctcs.edu Hispanic Outreach Coordinator Erin Howard 859/246-64369 or x56436 erin.howard@kctcs.edu |